diff --git a/README b/README
index 93d25d0c..7466bf91 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ and stable as a rock.
 psycopg2 is different from the other database adapter because it was
 designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy
 lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or
-UPDATEs. psycopg2 also provide full asycronous operations and support
+UPDATEs. psycopg2 also provides full asynchronous operations and support
 for coroutine libraries.
 
 psycopg2 can compile and run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MacOS X and
diff --git a/examples/binary.py b/examples/binary.py
index 89d5c739..804735b6 100644
--- a/examples/binary.py
+++ b/examples/binary.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys
 import psycopg2
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ for row in curs.fetchall():
     print "done"
     print "  python type of image data is", type(row[0])
     
-# this rollback is requires because we can't drop a table with a binary cusor
+# this rollback is required because we can't drop a table with a binary cusor
 # declared and still open
 conn.rollback()
 
diff --git a/examples/copy_from.py b/examples/copy_from.py
index 8dd7efd8..861dfdb8 100644
--- a/examples/copy_from.py
+++ b/examples/copy_from.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys
 import os
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ try:
     curs.copy_from(data, 'test_copy')
 except StandardError, err:
     conn.rollback()
-    print "   Catched error (as expected):\n", err
+    print "   Caught error (as expected):\n", err
 
 conn.rollback()
 
diff --git a/examples/copy_to.py b/examples/copy_to.py
index 4c1398fd..ec647945 100644
--- a/examples/copy_to.py
+++ b/examples/copy_to.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys
 import os
diff --git a/examples/cursor.py b/examples/cursor.py
index f3b2addb..2d56fd73 100644
--- a/examples/cursor.py
+++ b/examples/cursor.py
@@ -58,6 +58,6 @@ print "Result of fetchone():", curs.fetchone()
 try:
     curs.fetchone()
 except NoDataError, err:
-    print "Exception caugth:", err  
+    print "Exception caught:", err  
 
 conn.rollback()
diff --git a/examples/dialtone.py b/examples/dialtone.py
index 3a55686d..a89021ce 100644
--- a/examples/dialtone.py
+++ b/examples/dialtone.py
@@ -104,10 +104,10 @@ print adapt(Order()).generateInsert()
 - Discussion
 
 Psycopg 2 has a great new feature: adaptation. The big thing about 
-adaptation is that it enable the programmer to glue most of the 
+adaptation is that it enables the programmer to glue most of the 
 code out there without many difficulties.
 
-This recipe tries to focus the attention on a way to generate SQL queries to 
+This recipe tries to focus attention on a way to generate SQL queries to 
 insert  completely new objects inside a database. As you can see objects do 
 not know anything about the code that is handling them. We specify all the 
 fields that we need for each object through the persistent_fields dict.
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ The most important lines of this recipe are:
     register_adapter(Album, ObjectMapper)
     register_adapter(Order, ObjectMapper)
 
-In these line we notify the system that when we call adapt with an Album instance 
+In these lines we notify the system that when we call adapt with an Album instance 
 as an argument we want it to istantiate ObjectMapper passing the Album instance  
 as argument (self.orig in the ObjectMapper class).
 
diff --git a/examples/dt.py b/examples/dt.py
index 3ab5ee8d..c876590a 100644
--- a/examples/dt.py
+++ b/examples/dt.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys
 import psycopg2
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ print "Extracting values inserted with mx.DateTime wrappers:"
 curs.execute("SELECT d, t, dt, z FROM test_dt WHERE k = 1")
 for n, x in zip(mx1[1:], curs.fetchone()):
     try:
-        # this will work only is psycopg has been compiled with datetime
+        # this will work only if psycopg has been compiled with datetime
         # as the default typecaster for date/time values
         s = repr(n) + "\n -> " + str(adapt(n)) + \
             "\n -> " + repr(x) + "\n -> " + x.isoformat()
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ print "Extracting values inserted with Python datetime wrappers:"
 curs.execute("SELECT d, t, dt, z FROM test_dt WHERE k = 2")
 for n, x in zip(dt1[1:], curs.fetchone()):
     try:
-        # this will work only is psycopg has been compiled with datetime
+        # this will work only if psycopg has been compiled with datetime
         # as the default typecaster for date/time values
         s = repr(n) + "\n -> " +  repr(x) + "\n -> " + x.isoformat()
     except:
diff --git a/examples/fetch.py b/examples/fetch.py
index 996f7b74..b47ed3f1 100644
--- a/examples/fetch.py
+++ b/examples/fetch.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys
 import psycopg2
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ conn.commit()
 # does some nice tricks with the transaction and postgres cursors
 # (remember to always commit or rollback before a DECLARE)
 #
-# we don't need to DECLARE ourselves, psycopg now support named
+# we don't need to DECLARE ourselves, psycopg now supports named
 # cursors (but we leave the code here, comments, as an example of
 # what psycopg is doing under the hood)
 #
diff --git a/examples/lastrowid.py b/examples/lastrowid.py
index 827f7c22..12c9174c 100644
--- a/examples/lastrowid.py
+++ b/examples/lastrowid.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys, psycopg2
 
diff --git a/examples/notify.py b/examples/notify.py
index 2c2e1395..9b9a2d79 100644
--- a/examples/notify.py
+++ b/examples/notify.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys
 import select
diff --git a/examples/threads.py b/examples/threads.py
index 3c2ef0be..3f2c05fd 100644
--- a/examples/threads.py
+++ b/examples/threads.py
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ SELECT_STEP = 500
 SELECT_DIV  = 250
 
 # the available modes are:
-# 0 - one connection for all insert and one for all select threads
+# 0 - one connection for all inserts and one for all select threads
 # 1 - connections generated using the connection pool
 
 MODE = 1
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys, psycopg2, threading
 from psycopg2.pool import ThreadedConnectionPool
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def insert_func(conn_or_pool, rows):
     conn.commit()
 
 ## a nice select function that prints the current number of rows in the
-## database (and transefer them, putting some pressure on the network)
+## database (and transfer them, putting some pressure on the network)
     
 def select_func(conn_or_pool, z):
     name = threading.currentThread().getName()
diff --git a/examples/usercast.py b/examples/usercast.py
index 9540b28f..a0210f77 100644
--- a/examples/usercast.py
+++ b/examples/usercast.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 DSN = 'dbname=test'
 
-## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting)
+## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
 
 import sys
 import psycopg2