diff --git a/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml b/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
index 93b6a2229..87dd9ab64 100644
--- a/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         <term><parameter>--with-glibc-version=&glibc-version;</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>This option specifies the version of glibc which will be
-          used on the target. It is not relevent to the minimum glibc
+          used on the target. It is not relevant to the minimum glibc
           requirement specified in the
           <xref linkend="ch-partitioning-hostreqs"/> because everything
           compiled by pass1 gcc will run in the chroot environment,
diff --git a/chapter07/cleanup.xml b/chapter07/cleanup.xml
index 0d06bd68b..e5bdd1c04 100644
--- a/chapter07/cleanup.xml
+++ b/chapter07/cleanup.xml
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ tar -cJpf $HOME/lfs-temp-tools-&version;.tar.xz .</userinput></screen>
 <!-- Make the following look different so users don't blindly run the
      restore when they don't need to. -->
 
-    <warning><para>The following commands are extremly dangerous.  If
+    <warning><para>The following commands are extremely dangerous.  If
     you run <command>rm -rf ./*</command> as the root user and you
     do not change to the $LFS directory or the <envar>LFS</envar>
     environment variable is not set for the root user, it will destroy
diff --git a/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml b/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml
index bab18eb6d..085b983c5 100644
--- a/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml
+++ b/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ cp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d</userinput></screen>
   <sect2>
     <title>Overriding Default Services Behavior</title>
 
-    <para>The parameters of a unit can be overriden by creating a directory
+    <para>The parameters of a unit can be overridden by creating a directory
     and a configuration file in <filename
     class="directory">/etc/systemd/system</filename>. For example:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter09/usage.xml b/chapter09/usage.xml
index ffb31055d..a723099e4 100644
--- a/chapter09/usage.xml
+++ b/chapter09/usage.xml
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
     at <ulink url="&hints-root;time.txt"/>. It explains issues such as
     time zones, UTC, and the <envar>TZ</envar> environment variable.</para>
 
-    <note><para>The CLOCKPARAMS and UTC paramaters may also be set
+    <note><para>The CLOCKPARAMS and UTC parameters may also be set
     in the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/rc.site</filename> file.</para></note>
 
   </sect2>
diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml
index 67d0b3b0e..a66141fc4 100644
--- a/prologue/why.xml
+++ b/prologue/why.xml
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
         <para>MarkupSafe</para>
 
         <para>This package is a Python module for processing strings in
-        HTML/XHTML/XML safely.  Jinja2 requires this pacakge.</para>
+        HTML/XHTML/XML safely.  Jinja2 requires this package.</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>