diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e545313..948e10f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ In most cases, conmon should be packaged with your favorite container
 manager. However, if you'd like to try building it from source, follow
 the steps below.
 
-## Depedencies
+## Dependencies
 
 These dependencies are required for the build:
 
diff --git a/contrib/cirrus/README.md b/contrib/cirrus/README.md
index ab65d42..aaf4d87 100644
--- a/contrib/cirrus/README.md
+++ b/contrib/cirrus/README.md
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ as the standard 'cloud-init' services.
    (above).
 
 *  Base images do not need to be produced often, but doing so completely
-   manually would be time-consuming and error-prone.  Therefor a special
+   manually would be time-consuming and error-prone.  Therefore a special
    semi-automatic *Makefile* target is provided to assist with producing
    all the base-images: ``conmon_base_images``
 
diff --git a/hack/get_ci_vm.sh b/hack/get_ci_vm.sh
index 76c3931..5ab6be0 100755
--- a/hack/get_ci_vm.sh
+++ b/hack/get_ci_vm.sh
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ echo -e "\n${YEL}Removing and re-creating $SRC on $VMNAME.${NOR}"
 showrun $SSH_CMD --command "rm -rf $SRC"
 showrun $SSH_CMD --command "mkdir -p $SRC"
 
-echo -e "\n${YEL}Transfering tarball to $VMNAME.${NOR}"
+echo -e "\n${YEL}Transferring tarball to $VMNAME.${NOR}"
 wait
 showrun $SCP_CMD $TEMPFILE $SSHUSER@$VMNAME:$TEMPFILE
 
diff --git a/src/ctr_stdio.c b/src/ctr_stdio.c
index d0b1216..2a59c16 100644
--- a/src/ctr_stdio.c
+++ b/src/ctr_stdio.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static bool read_stdio(int fd, stdpipe_t pipe, gboolean *eof)
 {
 	/* We use two extra bytes. One at the start, which we don't read into, instead
 	   we use that for marking the pipe when we write to the attached socket.
-	   One at the end to guarentee a null-terminated buffer for journald logging*/
+	   One at the end to guarantee a null-terminated buffer for journald logging*/
 
 	char real_buf[STDIO_BUF_SIZE + 2];
 	char *buf = real_buf + 1;