Spelling fixes

4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 389de167fc6..758d358f41c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ command line when `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
 ** `isearch' and `query-replace' now perform character folding in matches.
 This is analogous to case-folding, but applies between Unicode
 characters and their ASCII counterparts. This means many characters
-will match entire groups of charactes.
+will match entire groups of characters.
 
 For instance, the " will match all variants of unicode double quotes
 (like “ and ”), and the letter a will match all of its accented
diff --git a/lisp/character-fold.el b/lisp/character-fold.el
index 1675e6e2459..fca13bf96c1 100644
--- a/lisp/character-fold.el
+++ b/lisp/character-fold.el
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-;;; character-fold.el --- matching unicode characters to their ascii similars -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
+;;; character-fold.el --- match unicode to similar ASCII -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
 
 ;; Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 ;;;###autoload
 (defvar character-fold-search t
   "Non-nil if searches should fold similar characters.
-This means some characters will match entire groups of charactes.
+This means some characters will match entire groups of characters.
 For instance, \" will match all variants of double quotes, and
 the letter a will match all of its accented versions (and then
 some).")
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ some).")
            ;; Discard a possible formatting tag.
            (when (symbolp (car dec))
              (setq dec (cdr dec)))
-           ;; Skip trivial cases lika ?a decomposing to (?a).
+           ;; Skip trivial cases like ?a decomposing to (?a).
            (unless (or (and (eq i (car dec))
                             (not  (cdr dec))))
              (let ((d dec) k found multiletter)
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index 7894aafe20d..35473334baf 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -2614,7 +2614,7 @@ to their archives."
 (defcustom package-hidden-regexps nil
   "List of regexps matching the name of packages to hide.
 If the name of a package matches any of these regexps it is
-omited from the package menu.  To toggle this, type \\[package-menu-toggle-hiding].
+omitted from the package menu.  To toggle this, type \\[package-menu-toggle-hiding].
 
 Values can be interactively added to this list by typing
 \\[package-menu-hide-package] on a package"
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog.12 b/src/ChangeLog.12
index 78b903e9d0e..f29b175fb37 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog.12
+++ b/src/ChangeLog.12
@@ -5623,7 +5623,7 @@
 2012-09-17  Kenichi Handa  <handa@gnu.org>
 
         * font.c (Ffont_shape_gstring): Fix previous change; GLYPHs may
-        not covert the last few charactes.
+        not convert the last few characters.
 
 2012-09-16  Kenichi Handa  <handa@gnu.org>