Spelling and minor grammar fixes

4 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index df45ec49632..c25f4efcdd0 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
         Use `with-temp-file'.
 
         * net/tramp-sh.el (tramp-perl-file-attributes)
-        (tramp-perl-directory-files-and-attributes): Escape apostrophs in
+        (tramp-perl-directory-files-and-attributes): Escape apostrophes in
         file names.
         (tramp-do-file-attributes-with-stat): Quote file name.
         (tramp-sh-handle-directory-files-and-attributes): Fall back to
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
         Normalize use of "cd".
         (tramp-do-directory-files-and-attributes-with-stat): Use the
         `quoting-style' arg of `ls' if possible.  Make it also working for
-        file names with apostrophs.
+        file names with apostrophes.
         (tramp-sh-handle-file-name-all-completions): Use arguments of `ls'
         in proper order.
         (tramp-do-copy-or-rename-file-via-buffer)
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index 00608f3d2c7..0d001bff4cf 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -1695,10 +1695,10 @@ similar to an entry in `package-alist'.  Save the cached copy to
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun package-refresh-contents ()
-  "Download the description of all configured ELPAs.
+  "Download descriptions of all configured ELPA packages.
 For each archive configured in the variable `package-archives',
-this informs Emacs about the latest versions of all packages it
-offers, and makes them available for download."
+inform Emacs about the latest versions of all packages it offers,
+and make them available for download."
   (interactive)
   ;; FIXME: Do it asynchronously.
   (unless (file-exists-p package-user-dir)
diff --git a/lisp/net/tramp-adb.el b/lisp/net/tramp-adb.el
index fae54520102..6696dcf1505 100644
--- a/lisp/net/tramp-adb.el
+++ b/lisp/net/tramp-adb.el
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ PRESERVE-UID-GID and PRESERVE-EXTENDED-ATTRIBUTES are completely ignored."
           (tramp-set-connection-property v "process-buffer" nil))))))
 
 (defun tramp-adb-get-device (vec)
-  "Return full host name from VEC to be used in shell exceution.
+  "Return full host name from VEC to be used in shell execution.
 E.g. a host name \"192.168.1.1#5555\" returns \"192.168.1.1:5555\"
      a host name \"R38273882DE\" returns \"R38273882DE\"."
   ;; Sometimes this is called before there is a connection process
diff --git a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el
index 580c5d08ecd..76d2b014917 100644
--- a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el
+++ b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el
@@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ be non-negative integers."
      ;; "-"; this would confuse xargs.  "ls -aQ" might be a solution,
      ;; but it does not work on all remote systems.  Therefore, we
      ;; use \000 as file separator.
-     ;; Apostrophs in the stat output are masked as \037 character, in
+     ;; Apostrophes in the stat output are masked as \037 characters, in
      ;; order to make a proper shell escape of them in file names.
      "cd %s && echo \"(\"; (%s %s -a | "
      "xargs %s -c "
@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ be non-negative integers."
      " -- 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/\"/\\\\\"/g' -e 's/\037/\"/g'); echo \")\"")
     (tramp-shell-quote-argument localname)
     (tramp-get-ls-command vec)
-    ;; On systems which have no quotings style, file names with
+    ;; On systems which have no quoting style, file names with
     ;; special characters could fail.
     (if (tramp-get-ls-command-with-quoting-style vec)
         "--quoting-style=shell" "")