diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a5c6170..891d9ae 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
 	* Add queuing on contention to per-node lock algorithm, to avoid
 	starvation.
 
-	* Only enable cancelation when reading a request, otherwise
+	* Only enable cancellation when reading a request, otherwise
 	cancellation could happen with a mutex held, which could hang the
 	process on umount
 
@@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@
 
 2005-11-21  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
-	* Don't use async cancelation in multithreaded loop.  This makes
+	* Don't use async cancellation in multithreaded loop.  This makes
 	it more portable to systems where read() is not async cancel safe.
 	Report from Andriy Gapon
 
@@ -2028,7 +2028,7 @@
 	* examples: add -lpthread to link flags to work around valgrind
 	quirk
 
-	* lib: don't exit threads, so cancelation doesn't cause segfault
+	* lib: don't exit threads, so cancellation doesn't cause segfault
 
 2005-03-04  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
@@ -2154,7 +2154,7 @@
 
 2005-01-10  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
-	* Add missing code that was accidently left out
+	* Add missing code that was accidentally left out
 
 2005-01-09  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
@@ -2253,7 +2253,7 @@
 2004-12-10  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
 	* When mounting on a subdirectory of / don't duplicate slashes at
-	the beggining of path (spotted by David Shaw)
+	the beginning of path (spotted by David Shaw)
 
 2004-12-09  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
@@ -3081,7 +3081,7 @@
 
 2002-10-22  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
-	* fix incompatiblity with Red Hat kernels, with help from Nathan
+	* fix incompatibility with Red Hat kernels, with help from Nathan
 	Thompson-Amato.
 
 2002-04-18  Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 8598f7e..b3ef885 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ write permissions for the owner?
 being to atomically obtain a read/write file handle and make the file
 read-only.  Unfortunately, this does not work very well in fuse, since
 you first get a mknod, and then an open call.  At the time of open,
-you can't distinguish easily wether this is the first open issued by
+you can't distinguish easily whether this is the first open issued by
 cp, or another process trying to write a read-only file.
 
 Defining the 'create' method solves this problem, however this
diff --git a/include/fuse_opt.h b/include/fuse_opt.h
index 8c08d77..baf1033 100644
--- a/include/fuse_opt.h
+++ b/include/fuse_opt.h
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ struct fuse_args {
  *
  * The 'arg' parameter will always contain the whole argument or
  * option including the parameter if exists.  A two-argument option
- * ("-x foo") is always converted to single arguemnt option of the
+ * ("-x foo") is always converted to single argument option of the
  * form "-xfoo" before this function is called.
  *
  * Options of the form '-ofoo' are passed to this function without the
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ int fuse_opt_add_arg(struct fuse_args *args, const char *arg);
  * argument vector
  *
  * Adds the argument to the N-th position.  This is useful for adding
- * options at the beggining of the array which must not come after the
+ * options at the beginning of the array which must not come after the
  * special '--' option.
  *
  * @param args is the structure containing the current argument list