diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2bd449275..a7a17da10 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ files.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
-* introduced a bug that resulted in source-maps not being loaded approriately on second test run ([#566](https://github.com/istanbuljs/nyc/issues/566)) ([1bf74fd](https://github.com/istanbuljs/nyc/commit/1bf74fd))
+* introduced a bug that resulted in source-maps not being loaded appropriately on second test run ([#566](https://github.com/istanbuljs/nyc/issues/566)) ([1bf74fd](https://github.com/istanbuljs/nyc/commit/1bf74fd))
 
 
 
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ files.
 
 ### Features
 
-* upgrade to new test-exclude; with suppport for node_modules, and empty exclude ([#348](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/issues/348)) ([d616ffc](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/d616ffc))
+* upgrade to new test-exclude; with support for node_modules, and empty exclude ([#348](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/issues/348)) ([d616ffc](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/d616ffc))
 
 
 ### BREAKING CHANGES
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ files.
 ### Bug Fixes
 
 * make --all flag work with files with extensions other than .js ([#326](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/issues/326)) ([d0a8674](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/d0a8674))
-* work around for Windows path issue nodejs/node[#6624](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/issues/6624) ([6b1fed0](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/6b1fed0))
+* workaround for Windows path issue nodejs/node[#6624](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/issues/6624) ([6b1fed0](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/6b1fed0))
 
 
 ### Features
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ files.
 
 ### Features
 
-* better docs for excluding, thanks @kentdodds \o/  ([22b06fe](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/22b06fe))
+* better docs for excluding, thanks @kentcdodds \o/  ([22b06fe](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/22b06fe))
 * updating dependencies (spawn wrap with npm patches \o/) ([ac841b8](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/commit/ac841b8))
 
 
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ files.
 
 ### v6.1.0 (2016/03/12 15:00 +7:00)
 
-- [#191](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/pull/191) upgrade to non-singleton verison of yargs (@bcoe)
+- [#191](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/pull/191) upgrade to non-singleton version of yargs (@bcoe)
 - [#185](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/pull/185) default to long-form option names so that they can be overridden in package.json (@rapzo)
 - [#180](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/pull/180) fix bug with findUp (@bcoe)
 - [#178](https://github.com/bcoe/nyc/pull/178) --all should handle extensions other than .js. (@lloydcotten)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4cd99d13e..d86af49ce 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ nyc --require esm mocha
 ### Interaction with `--all` flag
 
 The `--require` flag also operates on the main nyc process for use by `--all`.
-For example, in situations with `nyc --all --instrument false` and [`babel-plugin-istanbul`] setup the `--all` option only works if `--require @babel/register` is passed to nyc.
+For example, in situations with `nyc --all --instrument false` and [`babel-plugin-istanbul`] set up the `--all` option only works if `--require @babel/register` is passed to nyc.
 Passing it to mocha would cause the tests to be instrumented but unloaded sources would not be seen.
 The [`@istanbuljs/nyc-config-babel`] package handles this for you!
 
diff --git a/docs/profiling.md b/docs/profiling.md
index 5dfbbad12..d4dc7d296 100644
--- a/docs/profiling.md
+++ b/docs/profiling.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ cd /user/dev/ava
 npm link nyc
 ```
 
-This will likely not work with `tap --coverage`, since tap will try to use it's own older copy of nyc instead of your globally linked one. Modify the test script in your test project so it uses the `nyc` binary directly, and disable `tap`s version with the `--no-cov` flag:
+This will likely not work with `tap --coverage`, since tap will try to use its own older copy of nyc instead of your globally linked one. Modify the test script in your test project so it uses the `nyc` binary directly, and disable `tap`s version with the `--no-cov` flag:
 
 `package.json`:
 
diff --git a/test/nyc-integration.js b/test/nyc-integration.js
index ee31dcb33..ab494ddc5 100644
--- a/test/nyc-integration.js
+++ b/test/nyc-integration.js
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ t.test('extracts coverage headers from unexecuted files', async t => {
 
   t.ok(coverage.length !== 0)
   t.ok(coverage.every(data => typeof data === 'object'))
-  // we should not have executed file, so all counts sould be 0.
+  // we should not have executed file, so all counts should be 0.
   t.ok(coverage.every(data => Object.values(data.s).every(s => s === 0)))
 })