diff --git a/DynamicLoader.hxx.in b/DynamicLoader.hxx.in
index 7e71a4593c6e5f07d702de20f53b067273be2f0b..dc3469266a9673e82baa03478275b670c6cfee74 100644
--- a/DynamicLoader.hxx.in
+++ b/DynamicLoader.hxx.in
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@ {
* or absolute) pathname. Otherwise, the dynamic linker searches for the
* library as follows : see ld.so(8) for further details):
* Whereas this distinction does not exist on Win32. Therefore ideally you
- * should be doing full path to garantee to have a consistent way of dealing
+ * should be doing full path to guarantee to have a consistent way of dealing
* with dynamic loading of shared library.
*
* \warning the Cygwin implementation do not use the Win32 HMODULE. Put extra
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ public:
static LibraryHandle OpenLibrary(const std::string&);
/** Attempt to detach a dynamic library from the
- * process. A value of true is returned if it is sucessful. */
+ * process. A value of true is returned if it is successful. */
static int CloseLibrary(LibraryHandle);
/** Find the address of the symbol in the given library. */
diff --git a/Process.h.in b/Process.h.in
index 6cb94438e9df02ab28f5c9de02c904bbe6fa14c9..daf334a616748578c2bfba832cd2a2d5280bd2d0 100644
--- a/Process.h.in
+++ b/Process.h.in
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ enum kwsysProcess_Pipes_e
/**
* Block until the child process terminates or the given timeout
- * expires. If no process is running, returns immediatly. The
+ * expires. If no process is running, returns immediately. The
* argument is:
*
* timeout = Specifies the maximum time this call may block. Upon
diff --git a/RegularExpression.hxx.in b/RegularExpression.hxx.in
index 606e3da6ecf040d2de45a59f5c46f873c10bb358..763fdab1cd2364eb4fed2dbb4e32af7eac3cc772 100644
--- a/RegularExpression.hxx.in
+++ b/RegularExpression.hxx.in
@@ -109,12 +109,12 @@ namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@ {
* object as an argument and creates an object initialized with the
* information from the given RegularExpression object.
*
- * The find member function finds the first occurence of the regualr
+ * The find member function finds the first occurrence of the regular
* expression of that object in the string given to find as an argument. Find
* returns a boolean, and if true, mutates the private data appropriately.
* Find sets pointers to the beginning and end of the thing last found, they
* are pointers into the actual string that was searched. The start and end
- * member functions return indicies into the searched string that correspond
+ * member functions return indices into the searched string that correspond
* to the beginning and end pointers respectively. The compile member
* function takes a char* and puts the compiled version of the char* argument
* into the object's private data fields. The == and != operators only check
diff --git a/SystemInformation.cxx b/SystemInformation.cxx
index 366fe3039019707821a6873edd3805d5ce542b45..ab1f40a2ee5d38d7a76ebc265fe7d598dec2cc2d 100644
--- a/SystemInformation.cxx
+++ b/SystemInformation.cxx
@@ -3633,7 +3633,7 @@ SystemInformationImplementation::GetHostMemoryAvailable(
// apply resource limits across groups of processes.
// this is of use on certain SMP systems (eg. SGI UV)
// where the host has a large amount of ram but a given user's
- // access to it is severly restricted. The system will
+ // access to it is severely restricted. The system will
// apply a limit across a set of processes. Units are in KiB.
if (hostLimitEnvVarName) {
const char* hostLimitEnvVarValue = getenv(hostLimitEnvVarName);
diff --git a/SystemInformation.hxx.in b/SystemInformation.hxx.in
index 516c505c595f9ca3a1105b939ac6e07641653452..5678e8a10b1aeaeecd9fb93fddd4efa84c6bd010 100644
--- a/SystemInformation.hxx.in
+++ b/SystemInformation.hxx.in
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ public:
// are the processes comprising an mpi program which is running in
// parallel. The amount of memory reported may differ from the host
// total if a host wide resource limit is applied. Such reource limits
- // are reported to us via an applicaiton specified environment variable.
+ // are reported to us via an application specified environment variable.
LongLong GetHostMemoryAvailable(const char* hostLimitEnvVarName = NULL);
// Get total system RAM in units of KiB available to this process.
diff --git a/SystemTools.cxx b/SystemTools.cxx
index 72babc31caaa6537734b14a832d1b093eefce123..1f7ee10ec554e50159257fa1d042d867770e5157 100644
--- a/SystemTools.cxx
+++ b/SystemTools.cxx
@@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ bool SystemTools::StringEndsWith(const std::string& str1, const char* str2)
: false;
}
-// Returns a pointer to the last occurence of str2 in str1
+// Returns a pointer to the last occurrence of str2 in str1
const char* SystemTools::FindLastString(const char* str1, const char* str2)
{
if (!str1 || !str2) {
diff --git a/SystemTools.hxx.in b/SystemTools.hxx.in
index 3d109a88ea4235d8ac6266ab1140bd02a90f8330..8a02b7538f29ecba1956f4f81fcad33a65063df1 100644
--- a/SystemTools.hxx.in
+++ b/SystemTools.hxx.in
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public:
}
/**
- * Replace replace all occurences of the string in the source string.
+ * Replace replace all occurrences of the string in the source string.
*/
static void ReplaceString(std::string& source, const char* replace,
const char* with);
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ public:
static bool StringEndsWith(const std::string& str1, const char* str2);
/**
- * Returns a pointer to the last occurence of str2 in str1
+ * Returns a pointer to the last occurrence of str2 in str1
*/
static const char* FindLastString(const char* str1, const char* str2);
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ public:
/**
* Delay the execution for a specified amount of time specified
- * in miliseconds
+ * in milliseconds
*/
static void Delay(unsigned int msec);
diff --git a/kwsysPlatformTestsCXX.cxx b/kwsysPlatformTestsCXX.cxx
index e67d4366239a57d0c5e1cde35b05def52a889fa1..f1f9ed351b655877f8671b0e8067dc5bbe9dfa87 100644
--- a/kwsysPlatformTestsCXX.cxx
+++ b/kwsysPlatformTestsCXX.cxx
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ int main()
#ifdef TEST_KWSYS_CXX_HAS_BACKTRACE
#if defined(__PATHSCALE__) || defined(__PATHCC__) || \
(defined(__LSB_VERSION__) && (__LSB_VERSION__ < 41))
-backtrace doesnt work with this compiler or os
+backtrace does not work with this compiler or os
#endif
#if (defined(__GNUC__) || defined(__PGI)) && !defined(_GNU_SOURCE)
#define _GNU_SOURCE