diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
index 9cc6c16f689d3fc74ccd257ade7a89b76d101133..5e657e04e270aa62a324bcab791202439fe21856 100644
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
 2011-11-19  Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
 
 	* Bugfixes
-	* Improve XDG compability
+	* Improve XDG compatibility
 
 2011-11-18  Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md
index b14d782e50a428afc403d56a0ac37594949b34b3..8b9b24464ad4e206bd48c107981753831de51b56 100644
--- a/doc/README.md
+++ b/doc/README.md
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Note the portage package for myrepos still has the old project name:
 
 vcsh is available via this [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vcsh/)
 package. Likewise myrepos is available [here](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/myrepos/).
-You may install both useing your favorite AUR helper. e.g. with yaourt:
+You may install both using your favorite AUR helper. e.g. with yaourt:
 
     yaourt -Sya myrepos vcsh
 
diff --git a/doc/vcsh.1.ronn b/doc/vcsh.1.ronn
index a25bf65b18c5ac5fecef303cae607e662a22d71c..6e19ef8be41e4d078f2e90c998598cdc03732c39 100644
--- a/doc/vcsh.1.ronn
+++ b/doc/vcsh.1.ronn
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Interesting knobs you can turn:
 
   Defaults to <exact>.
 
-* <$VCSH_VCSH_WORKTREE>:
+* <$VCSH_WORKTREE>:
   Can be <absolute>, or <relative>.
 
   <absolute> will set an absolute path; defaulting to <$HOME>.
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ config files, all of which were soft-linked into <$HOME>.
 Martin F. Krafft aka madduck came up with the concept of fake bare Git
 repositories.
 
-vcsh was initally written by madduck. This version is a re-implementation from
+vcsh was initially written by madduck. This version is a re-implementation from
 scratch with a lot more features. madduck graciously agreed to let the author
 take over the name.