diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 04159a0f4..51df7726d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
 ## 2015-09-11 (2.0.0)
   * Now complies to newest JSON RFC 7159.
-  * Implements compatibiliy to ruby 2.4 integer unification.
+  * Implements compatibility to ruby 2.4 integer unification.
   * Drops support for old rubies whose life has ended, that is rubies < 2.0.
     Also see https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/07/01/eol-for-1-8-7-and-1-9-2/
   * There were still some mentions of dual GPL licensing in the source, but JSON
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@
 ## 2013-02-04 (1.7.7)
   * Security fix for JSON create_additions default value and
     `JSON::GenericObject`. It should not be possible to create additions unless
-    explicitely requested by setting the create_additions argument to true or
+    explicitly requested by setting the create_additions argument to true or
     using the JSON.load/dump interface. If `JSON::GenericObject` is supposed to
-    be automatically deserialised, this has to be explicitely enabled by
+    be automatically deserialised, this has to be explicitly enabled by
     setting
         JSON::GenericObject.json_creatable = true
     as well.
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
 ## 2010-04-23 (1.4.0)
   * Major speed improvements and building with simplified
     directory/file-structure.
-  * Extension should at least be comapatible with MRI, YARV and Rubinius.
+  * Extension should at least be compatible with MRI, YARV and Rubinius.
 
 ## 2010-04-07 (1.2.4)
   * Triger const_missing callback to make Rails' dynamic class loading work.
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
     strings in object names/keys.
 
 ## 2009-10-01 (1.2.0)
-  * `fast_generate` now raises an exeception for nan and infinite floats.
+  * `fast_generate` now raises an exception for nan and infinite floats.
   * On Ruby 1.8 json supports parsing of UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE,
     and UTF-32LE JSON documents now. Under Ruby 1.9 the M17n conversion
     functions are used to convert from all supported encodings. ASCII-8BIT
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 682db2f25..e0205574f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ the `pp` library's `pp` methods.
 
 The script `tools/server.rb` contains a small example if you want to test, how
 receiving a JSON object from a webrick server in your browser with the
-javasript prototype library http://www.prototypejs.org works.
+JavaScript prototype library http://www.prototypejs.org works.
 
 ## Speed Comparisons
 
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ extension:
 ```
 
 In the table above 1 is `JSON::Ext::Parser`, 2 is `YAML.load` with YAML
-compatbile JSON document, 3 is is `JSON::Pure::Parser`, and 4 is
+compatible JSON document, 3 is is `JSON::Pure::Parser`, and 4 is
 `ActiveSupport::JSON.decode`. The ActiveSupport JSON-decoder converts the
 input first to YAML and then uses the YAML-parser, the conversion seems to
 slow it down so much that it is only as fast as the `JSON::Pure::Parser`!
diff --git a/java/src/json/ext/GeneratorState.java b/java/src/json/ext/GeneratorState.java
index 7fec09d4f..a0541d674 100644
--- a/java/src/json/ext/GeneratorState.java
+++ b/java/src/json/ext/GeneratorState.java
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ public int decreaseDepth() {
     /**
      * Checks if the current depth is allowed as per this state's options.
      * @param context
-     * @param depth The corrent depth
+     * @param depth The current depth
      */
     private void checkMaxNesting() {
         if (maxNesting != 0 && depth > maxNesting) {
diff --git a/json_pure.gemspec b/json_pure.gemspec
index 3f3199da5..146ef6706 100644
--- a/json_pure.gemspec
+++ b/json_pure.gemspec
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.email = "flori@ping.de".freeze
 
   s.extra_rdoc_files = ["README.md".freeze]
-  s.rdoc_options = ["--title".freeze, "JSON implemention for ruby".freeze, "--main".freeze, "README.md".freeze]
+  s.rdoc_options = ["--title".freeze, "JSON implementation for ruby".freeze, "--main".freeze, "README.md".freeze]
   s.files = [
     "CHANGES.md".freeze,
     "Gemfile".freeze,
diff --git a/lib/json/pure/parser.rb b/lib/json/pure/parser.rb
index d795a3b92..e1d701b30 100644
--- a/lib/json/pure/parser.rb
+++ b/lib/json/pure/parser.rb
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class Parser < StringScanner
           /(?=\*/)      # single slash before this comment's end
          )*
            \*/               # the End of this comment
-           |[ \t\r\n]+       # whitespaces: space, horicontal tab, lf, cr
+           |[ \t\r\n]+       # whitespaces: space, horizontal tab, lf, cr
         )+
       )mx