diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ce6aebf2a..397c4d560 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Beqa Arabuli           <arabulibeqa@gmail.com>           (Georgian)
 Daiki Noda             <sys.pdr.pdm9@gmail.com>          (Japanese)
 Ștefan Comănescu       <sdfanq@gmail.com>                (Romanian)
 Gábor Oberle           <oberleg@myopera.com>             (Hungarian)
-Piccoro McKay Lenz     <mckaygerhard@gmail.com>          (Venezulean Spanish)
+Piccoro McKay Lenz     <mckaygerhard@gmail.com>          (Venezuelan Spanish)
 Stanislav Kuznietsov   <stanislav_kuznetsov@ukr.net>     (Ukrainian)
 Seyyed Razi Alavizadeh <s.r.alavizadeh@gmail.com>        (Persian)
 Guillem Prats          <guprej@gmail.com>                (Catalan)
@@ -55,6 +55,6 @@ Ferhat AYDIN           <ferhataydin44@gmail.com>         (Turkish)
 Special thanks:
 
 Jonathan Hooverman    <jonathan.hooverman@gmail.com>    (english language correction)
-Peter Vacula          <pvacula1989@gmail.com>           (for a big support in the beginnigs)
+Peter Vacula          <pvacula1989@gmail.com>           (for a big support in the beginnings)
 Sergio Cipolla        <secipolla@gmail.com>             (modifications to QupZilla icon)
 Radomir Orkac                                           (qupzilla.com domain)
diff --git a/BUILDING b/BUILDING
index e0418e998..10b9d060f 100644
--- a/BUILDING
+++ b/BUILDING
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ General
   If you can, you should use precompiled packages for your distribution.
   But if you cannot use them, or they are not available, please read
   this information before compiling.
-  After your binary is successfuly compiled, you need to copy bin/ folder
+  After your binary is successfully compiled, you need to copy bin/ folder
   from git to specific directory by your system you compiled for.
   On Linux, you can easily do it by running make install.
   If you are unsure where is the right place, you can check it directly from
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ MAC OS X
 
     $ ./mac/macdeploy.sh <path-to-macdeployqt>
 
-  You need to specifiy path to macdeployqt (usually in QTDIR/bin/macdeployqt) only
+  You need to specify path to macdeployqt (usually in QTDIR/bin/macdeployqt) only
   if it is not in PATH.
 
 OS/2
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Available Defines
     $ export NAME="value"
 
  General:
-   PORTABLE_BUILD         QupZilla won't write any data outside of path of exection.
+   PORTABLE_BUILD         QupZilla won't write any data outside of path of execution.
                           It will also disable plugins by default.
                           (disabled by default)
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87dab4383..f94e3f70d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ History
 
 The very first version of QupZilla has been released in December 2010 and it was written
 in Python with PyQt4 bindings. After a few versions, QupZilla has been completely rewritten
-in C++ with the Qt Framework. The Windows version of QupZilla was compiled using MingW, but due to
+in C++ with the Qt Framework. The Windows version of QupZilla was compiled using MinGW, but due to
 a huge problem with Flash, it is now compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 2008.
 First public release was 1.0.0-b4.