diff --git a/doc/advanced.rst b/doc/advanced.rst
index 1a1af7d2..b54c1ee7 100644
--- a/doc/advanced.rst
+++ b/doc/advanced.rst
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Type casting of SQL types into Python values
 
 PostgreSQL objects read from the database can be adapted to Python objects
 through an user-defined adapting function.  An adapter function takes two
-argments: the object string representation as returned by PostgreSQL and the
+arguments: the object string representation as returned by PostgreSQL and the
 cursor currently being read, and should return a new Python object.  For
 example, the following function parses a PostgreSQL ``point`` into the
 previously defined ``Point`` class::
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Asynchronous queries
 
 .. warning::
 
-    Async quaeries are not enabled for 2.0
+    Asynchronous queries are not enabled for 2.0
 
     .. todo::
 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ doomed to fail (and raise an exception) until the original cursor (the one
 executing the query) complete the asynchronous operation. This can happen in
 a number of different ways:
 
-1) one of the :obj:`.fetch*()` methods is called, effectively blocking untill
+1) one of the :obj:`.fetch*()` methods is called, effectively blocking until
    data has been sent from the backend to the client, terminating the query.
    
 2) :meth:`connection.cancel` is called. This method tries to abort the
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Note that calling :obj:`.execute()` two times in a row will not abort the
 former query and will temporarily go to synchronous mode until the first of
 the two queries is executed.
 
-Cursors now have some extra methods that make them usefull during
+Cursors now have some extra methods that make them useful during
 asynchronous queries:
 
 :meth:`cursor.fileno`
diff --git a/doc/connection.rst b/doc/connection.rst
index a8e85a20..cebc372b 100644
--- a/doc/connection.rst
+++ b/doc/connection.rst
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ The ``connection`` class
     .. method:: get_transaction_status()
 
         Return the current session transaction status as an integer.  Symbolic
-        constants for the vaules are defined in the module
+        constants for the values are defined in the module
         :mod:`psycopg2.extensions`: see :ref:`transaction-status-constants`
         for the available values.
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ The ``connection`` class
 
     .. attribute:: protocol_version
 
-        A read-ony integer representing frontend/backend protocol being used.
+        A read-only integer representing frontend/backend protocol being used.
         It can be 2 or 3.
 
         .. seealso:: libpq docs for `PQprotocolVersion()`__ for details.
diff --git a/doc/cursor.rst b/doc/cursor.rst
index b01c2001..9826c2d8 100644
--- a/doc/cursor.rst
+++ b/doc/cursor.rst
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The ``cursor`` class
         |execute*|_ methods yet.
         
         The type_code can be interpreted by comparing it to the Type Objects
-        specified in the section :ref:`type-objects-and-costructors`.
+        specified in the section :ref:`type-objects-and-constructors`.
 
     .. method:: close()
           
@@ -171,13 +171,13 @@ The ``cursor`` class
 
     .. _fetch*:
 
-    The followig methods are used to read data from the database after an
+    The following methods are used to read data from the database after an
     :meth:`execute()` call.
 
     .. note::
 
         :class:`cursor` objects are iterable, so, instead of calling
-        explicitely :meth:`fetchone()` in a loop, the object itself can be
+        explicitly :meth:`fetchone()` in a loop, the object itself can be
         used::
 
             >>> cur.execute("SELECT * FROM test;")
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ The ``cursor`` class
         affected (for DML statements like ``UPDATE`` or ``INSERT``).
         
         The attribute is -1 in case no |execute*| has been performed on
-        the cursor or the rowcount of the last operation is cannot be
+        the cursor or the row count of the last operation if it can't be
         determined by the interface.
 
         .. note::
diff --git a/doc/module.rst b/doc/module.rst
index 570dfccb..4fbea207 100644
--- a/doc/module.rst
+++ b/doc/module.rst
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ This is the exception inheritance layout:
 .. _StandardError: http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions.html#exceptions.StandardError
 
 
-.. _type-objects-and-costructors:
+.. _type-objects-and-constructors:
 
 Type Objects and Constructors
 -----------------------------
diff --git a/doc/usage.rst b/doc/usage.rst
index 4296c287..044c93ae 100644
--- a/doc/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/usage.rst
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ is converted into the SQL command::
 
 Named arguments are supported too using ``%(name)s`` placeholders.  Using named
 arguments the values can be passed to the query in any order and many
-placeholder can use the the same values::
+placeholder can use the same values::
 
     >>> cur.execute(
     ...     """INSERT INTO some_table (an_int, a_date, another_date, a_string)
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ all the returned records, transferring them to the client process. If the
 query returned an huge amount of data, a proportionally large amount of memory
 will be allocated by the client.
 
-If the dataset is too large to be pratically handled on the client side, it is
+If the dataset is too large to be practically handled on the client side, it is
 possible to create a *server side* cursor. Using this kind of cursor it is
 possible to transfer to the client only a controlled amount of data, so that a
 large dataset can be examined without keeping it entirely in memory.