diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 7bd82abda..1231e715c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ The relevant maintainer for a pull request is assigned in 3 steps:
* Step 1: Determine the subdirectory affected by the pull request. This might be src/registry, docs/source/api, or any other part of the repo.
-* Step 2: Find the MAINTAINERS file which affects this directory. If the directory itself does not have a MAINTAINERS file, work your way up the the repo hierarchy until you find one.
+* Step 2: Find the MAINTAINERS file which affects this directory. If the directory itself does not have a MAINTAINERS file, work your way up the repo hierarchy until you find one.
* Step 3: The first maintainer listed is the primary maintainer who is assigned the Pull Request. The primary maintainer can reassign a Pull Request to other listed maintainers.
diff --git a/docs/source/2021-news.rst b/docs/source/2021-news.rst
index 7875f0a77..3057600de 100644
--- a/docs/source/2021-news.rst
+++ b/docs/source/2021-news.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Changelog - 2021
- fix tornado usage with latest versions of Django
- add support for python -m gunicorn
- fix systemd socket activation example
-- allows to set wsgi application in configg file using `wsgi_app`
+- allows to set wsgi application in config file using `wsgi_app`
- document `--timeout = 0`
- always close a connection when the number of requests exceeds the max requests
- Disable keepalive during graceful shutdown
diff --git a/docs/source/2023-news.rst b/docs/source/2023-news.rst
index c26071580..1f943c8a2 100644
--- a/docs/source/2023-news.rst
+++ b/docs/source/2023-news.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Changelog - 2023
22.0.0 - TBDTBDTBD
==================
-- fix numerous security vulnerabilites in HTTP parser (closing some request smuggling vectors)
+- fix numerous security vulnerabilities in HTTP parser (closing some request smuggling vectors)
- parsing additional requests is no longer attempted past unsupported request framing
- on HTTP versions < 1.1 support for chunked transfer is refused (only used in exploits)
- requests conflicting configured or passed SCRIPT_NAME now produce a verbose error
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Changelog - 2023
- minimum version is Python 3.7
- the limitations on valid characters in the HTTP method have been bounded to Internet Standards
- requests specifying unsupported transfer coding (order) are refused by default (rare)
-- HTTP methods are no longer casefolded by default (IANA method registry contains none affacted)
+- HTTP methods are no longer casefolded by default (IANA method registry contains none affected)
- HTTP methods containing the number sign (#) are no longer accepted by default (rare)
- HTTP versions < 1.0 or >= 2.0 are no longer accepted by default (rare, only HTTP/1.1 is supported)
- HTTP versions consisting of multiple digits or containing a prefix/suffix are no longer accepted
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ This is fixing the bad file description error.
- support python 3.11
- fix gevent and eventlet workers
- fix threads support (gththread): improve performance and unblock requests
-- SSL: noaw use SSLContext object
+- SSL: now use SSLContext object
- HTTP parser: miscellaneous fixes
-- remove unecessary setuid calls
+- remove unnecessary setuid calls
- fix testing
- improve logging
- miscellaneous fixes to core engine
diff --git a/docs/source/news.rst b/docs/source/news.rst
index 73debcb9b..73cdc4cc7 100644
--- a/docs/source/news.rst
+++ b/docs/source/news.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ This is fixing the bad file description error.
- fix threads support (gththread): improve performance and unblock requests
- SSL: noaw use SSLContext object
- HTTP parser: miscellaneous fixes
-- remove unecessary setuid calls
+- remove unnecessary setuid calls
- fix testing
- improve logging
- miscellaneous fixes to core engine
diff --git a/docs/source/settings.rst b/docs/source/settings.rst
index 4be760c28..4e0c11877 100644
--- a/docs/source/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/source/settings.rst
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ H protocol
s status
B response length
b response length or ``'-'`` (CLF format)
-f referer
+f referrer
a user agent
T request time in seconds
M request time in milliseconds
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ Whether client certificate is required (see stdlib ssl module's)
=========== ===========================
--cert-reqs Description
=========== ===========================
-`0` no client veirifcation
+`0` no client verification
`1` ssl.CERT_OPTIONAL
`2` ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
=========== ===========================
diff --git a/gunicorn/arbiter.py b/gunicorn/arbiter.py
index 008a54efe..1cf436748 100644
--- a/gunicorn/arbiter.py
+++ b/gunicorn/arbiter.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def setup(self, app):
in sorted(self.cfg.settings.items(),
key=lambda setting: setting[1]))))
- # set enviroment' variables
+ # set environment' variables
if self.cfg.env:
for k, v in self.cfg.env.items():
os.environ[k] = v
diff --git a/gunicorn/config.py b/gunicorn/config.py
index 3b57fad0f..144acaecc 100644
--- a/gunicorn/config.py
+++ b/gunicorn/config.py
@@ -2233,7 +2233,7 @@ class PasteGlobalConf(Setting):
The option can be specified multiple times.
- The variables are passed to the the PasteDeploy entrypoint. Example::
+ The variables are passed to the PasteDeploy entrypoint. Example::
$ gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:8000 --paste development.ini --paste-global FOO=1 --paste-global BAR=2
diff --git a/gunicorn/http/message.py b/gunicorn/http/message.py
index 5e8d2427d..88ffa5a25 100644
--- a/gunicorn/http/message.py
+++ b/gunicorn/http/message.py
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ def set_body_reader(self):
content_length = value
elif name == "TRANSFER-ENCODING":
if value.lower() == "chunked":
- # DANGER: transer codings stack, and stacked chunking is never intended
+ # DANGER: transfer codings stack, and stacked chunking is never intended
if chunked:
raise InvalidHeader("TRANSFER-ENCODING", req=self)
chunked = True