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-rw-r--r--doc/contributing.texi4
-rw-r--r--doc/guix-cookbook.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi12
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index c94ae940fa..ab4f30d54b 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -3465,9 +3465,9 @@ Guile does not know in which order you intended the string to be read, so it
will substitute the symbols in the same order as the English sentence.
As an example, you cannot translate @samp{package '~a' has been superseded by
-'~a'} by @samp{'~a' superseeds package '~a'}, because the meaning would be
+'~a'} by @samp{'~a' supersedes package '~a'}, because the meaning would be
reversed. If @var{foo} is superseded by @var{bar}, the translation would read
-@samp{'foo' superseeds package 'bar'}. To work around this problem, it
+@samp{'foo' supersedes package 'bar'}. To work around this problem, it
is possible to use more advanced formatting to select a given piece of data,
instead of following the default English order. @xref{Formatted Output,,,
guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}, for more information on formatting in Guile.
diff --git a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
index cbb0163bd3..789130528a 100644
--- a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
+++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
@@ -1833,7 +1833,7 @@ In the above example @code{%file-systems} is a collection of flags
enabling different file system support, @code{%efi-support} enables EFI
support and @code{%emulation} enables a x86_64-linux machine to act in
32-bit mode also. The @code{default-extra-linux-options} procedure is
-the one defined above, which had to be used to avoid loosing the default
+the one defined above, which had to be used to avoid losing the default
configuration options of the @code{extra-options} keyword.
This all sounds like it should be doable, but how does one even know which
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 54a736c518..59d9ae5dce 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -36926,7 +36926,7 @@ local syslog daemon. Alternatively, a log file name can be specified,
for example @file{/var/log/mpd.log}.
@item @code{log-level} (type: maybe-string)
-Supress any messages below this threshold. The available values, in
+Suppress any messages below this threshold. The available values, in
decreasing order of verbosity, are: @code{verbose}, @code{info},
@code{notice}, @code{warning} and @code{error}.
@@ -41532,7 +41532,7 @@ Print debugging output to stderr.
Log to syslog facility instead of stdout.
@item @code{scan?} (default: @code{#t}) (type: boolean)
-Scan for cachable objects.
+Scan for cacheable objects.
@item @code{cache-directory} (type: maybe-string)
Location of the cache directory.
@@ -42635,13 +42635,13 @@ Whether to automatically configure subuids and subgids for root.
@item @code{subgids} (default: @code{'()}) (type: list-of-subid-ranges)
The list of @code{subid-range}s that will be serialized to @code{/etc/subgid}.
If a range doesn't specify a start it will be fitted based on its number of
-requrested subids. If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
+requested subids. If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
of 65536 will be assumed.
@item @code{subuids} (default: @code{'()}) (type: list-of-subid-ranges)
The list of @code{subid-range}s that will be serialized to @code{/etc/subuid}.
If a range doesn't specify a start it will be fitted based on its number of
-requrested subids. If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
+requested subids. If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
of 65536 will be assumed.
@end table
@@ -43321,7 +43321,7 @@ Whether to enable verbose output for the current backup job.
@item @code{extra-flags} (default: @code{'()}) (type: list-of-lowerables)
A list of values that are lowered to strings. These will be passed as
command-line arguments to the current job @command{restic backup}
-invokation.
+invocation.
@end table
@@ -47442,7 +47442,7 @@ The expected home directory state would then be:
@end example
@defvar home-dotfiles-service-type
-Return a service which is very similiar to @code{home-files-service-type}
+Return a service which is very similar to @code{home-files-service-type}
(and actually extends it), but designed to ease the way into using Guix
Home for users that already track their dotfiles under some kind of version
control. This service allows users to point Guix Home to their dotfiles