--- acct/NEWS
+++ acct/NEWS
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ New in 6.5.3:
 
 New in 6.5.1:
 
-  * GNUlib for compability, audited code... Reworked.
+  * GNUlib for compatibility, audited code... Reworked.
 
 New in 6.5:
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ New in 6.4:
   * The acct.h header file is now expected to be at <sys/acct.h>,
     the older <linux/acct.h> is ignored. As this file is not used
     at all when Linux multiformat is enabled (which is the default),
-    noone should notice this change anyways.
+    no one should notice this change anyways.
 
   * A bug with the ctime() function on 64 bit platforms was fixed.
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ New in 6.3.1:
   * We use `automake' to build the package, so things like ansi2knr
     should be called automatically for those of you that don't have
     ANSI C compilers.  It also helps write the install targets, etc.
-    Very cool.  I was suprised how easy it was to integrate into this
+    Very cool.  I was surprised how easy it was to integrate into this
     package.  Hats off to David J. MacKenzie and Tom Tromey!
 
 
--- acct/accounting.texi
+++ acct/accounting.texi
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ flags, as recorded by the system accounting routines:
 @item
 the name of the user who ran the process
 @item
-time the process exited
+time the process started
 @end itemize
 
 @section Flags
--- acct/al_share.cpp
+++ acct/al_share.cpp
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 /* This is the loop that handles the parsing of entries.  Since it's
    virtually identical for ac & last, I figured it was better to have
-   only one copy of it to reduce the possiblity of errors. */
+   only one copy of it to reduce the possibility of errors. */
 
 void parse_entries(void)
 {
--- acct/dump-utmp.8
+++ acct/dump-utmp.8
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 dump\-utmp \- print a utmp file in human-readable format
 
-.SH SYNOPSYS
+.SH SYNOPSIS
 \fBdump-utmp\fR [\fB-hrR\fR] [\fB-n\fR <\fIrecs\fR>] <\fBfiles\fR>
       [\fB--num\fR <\fIrecs\fR>] [\fB--raw\fR] [\fB--reverse\fR] [\fB--help\fR]
 
--- acct/last.c
+++ acct/last.c
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
           hashtab_create (names, argv[optind], 0);
 
-          /* add the name as "tty<name>" for u*x compatibilty */
+          /* add the name as "tty<name>" for u*x compatibility */
 
           string = (char *) xmalloc ((strlen (argv[optind]) + 4)
                                      * sizeof (char));