Fix typos in KConfig files (.in rules)

To not fix typos one by one, use a tool for that. All typos found with
`codespell -i 3 -w rules/*.in platforms/*.in`.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>

47 files changed, 61 insertions, 61 deletions

diff --git a/platforms/architecture.in b/platforms/architecture.in
index 8fb870eff..43eecbcbc 100644
--- a/platforms/architecture.in
+++ b/platforms/architecture.in
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ config ARCH_LP64
 
 
 #
-# endianess
+# endianness
 #
 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_ENDIAN_BIG
        bool
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_ENDIAN_LITTLE
        bool
 
 choice
-	prompt "endianess       "
+	prompt "endianness      "
 	default ENDIAN_LITTLE if !ARCH_MICROBLAZE
 	default ENDIAN_BIG if ARCH_MICROBLAZE
 
diff --git a/platforms/at91bootstrap.in b/platforms/at91bootstrap.in
index da54849f2..a4303bbaa 100644
--- a/platforms/at91bootstrap.in
+++ b/platforms/at91bootstrap.in
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ config AT91BOOTSTRAP_VERSION
 	default 1.16
 	prompt "AT91 Bootstrap version"
 	help
-	  Enter the AT91 Bootstrap version you want to build. Usally something like "1.11"
+	  Enter the AT91 Bootstrap version you want to build. Usually something like "1.11"
 
 config AT91BOOTSTRAP_MD5
 	prompt "AT91 Bootstrap source md5sum"
diff --git a/platforms/at91bootstrap2.in b/platforms/at91bootstrap2.in
index 80f0542e1..0182912e5 100644
--- a/platforms/at91bootstrap2.in
+++ b/platforms/at91bootstrap2.in
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ config AT91BOOTSTRAP2_VERSION
 	default "3.8.5"
 	prompt "AT91 Bootstrap version"
 	help
-	  Enter the AT91 Bootstrap version you want to build. Usally something like "3.8.5"
+	  Enter the AT91 Bootstrap version you want to build. Usually something like "3.8.5"
 
 config AT91BOOTSTRAP2_MD5
 	prompt "AT91 Bootstrap source md5sum"
diff --git a/platforms/image-root-squashfs.in b/platforms/image-root-squashfs.in
index 4020c50eb..5f9368770 100644
--- a/platforms/image-root-squashfs.in
+++ b/platforms/image-root-squashfs.in
@@ -18,32 +18,32 @@ if IMAGE_ROOT_SQUASHFS
 choice
 	prompt "squashfs compression mode"
 	help
-	  Select your prefered compression mode.
+	  Select your preferred compression mode.
 
 	config IMAGE_ROOT_SQUASHFS_COMPRESSION_MODE_GZIP
 	bool "gzip"
 	help
-	  Select your prefered compression mode.
+	  Select your preferred compression mode.
 
 	config IMAGE_ROOT_SQUASHFS_COMPRESSION_MODE_LZMA
 	bool "lzma"
 	help
-	  Select your prefered compression mode.
+	  Select your preferred compression mode.
 
 	config IMAGE_ROOT_SQUASHFS_COMPRESSION_MODE_LZO
 	bool "lzo"
 	help
-	  Select your prefered compression mode.
+	  Select your preferred compression mode.
 
 	config IMAGE_ROOT_SQUASHFS_COMPRESSION_MODE_LZ4
 	bool "lz4"
 	help
-	  Select your prefered compression mode.
+	  Select your preferred compression mode.
 
 	config IMAGE_ROOT_SQUASHFS_COMPRESSION_MODE_XZ
 	bool "xz"
 	help
-	  Select your prefered compression mode.
+	  Select your preferred compression mode.
 
 endchoice
 
diff --git a/platforms/image-root-ubi.in b/platforms/image-root-ubi.in
index fe5d7c876..3638a2a0d 100644
--- a/platforms/image-root-ubi.in
+++ b/platforms/image-root-ubi.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ config IMAGE_ROOT_UBI
 	select IMAGE_ROOT_UBIFS
 	prompt "Generate images/root.ubi"
 	help
-	  Build ubi formated image(s) for the root file system and an
+	  Build ubi formatted image(s) for the root file system and an
 	  optional data partition. UBI is faster and robuster than JFFS2,
 	  we recommend strongly the usage of UBI if you want a file
 	  system for raw flash devices. The image(s) can be directly
diff --git a/platforms/u-boot.in b/platforms/u-boot.in
index 38684a03a..b93d7f6f8 100644
--- a/platforms/u-boot.in
+++ b/platforms/u-boot.in
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ config U_BOOT_VERSION
 	default 1.2.0
 	prompt "U-Boot version"
 	help
-	  Enter the Uboot version you want to build. Usally something like "1.2.0"
+	  Enter the Uboot version you want to build. Usually something like "1.2.0"
 
 config U_BOOT_MD5
 	string
diff --git a/platforms/x-load.in b/platforms/x-load.in
index d2f39d2e1..83e2978db 100644
--- a/platforms/x-load.in
+++ b/platforms/x-load.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ menuconfig X_LOAD
 	depends on ARCH_ARM
 	prompt "OMAP x-load                   "
 	help
-	  The X-Loader is a first level bootloader for Texas Intruments OMAP
+	  The X-Loader is a first level bootloader for Texas Instruments OMAP
 	  microprocessors (similar to the AT91Bootstrap application). It is
 	  used for booting these microprocessors from NAND-flash, MMC/SD-card,
 	  USB or serial interfaces.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ config X_LOAD_VERSION
 	default f243938
 	prompt "x-loader version"
 	help
-	  Enter the X-Loader version you want to build. Usally something like "1.4.2"
+	  Enter the X-Loader version you want to build. Usually something like "1.4.2"
 
 	  NOTICE: The X-Loader source tree was never released as download archive.
 	  As long as that fact exists you can use the archived tarballs at:
diff --git a/rules/00debug-packages.in b/rules/00debug-packages.in
index 848c1c387..64dd254f1 100644
--- a/rules/00debug-packages.in
+++ b/rules/00debug-packages.in
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ config DEBUG_PACKAGES
 	  created. These packages are not installed by default but can be
 	  installed manually as needed. They contain the debug files that
 	  are otherwise only available in nfsroot.
-	  This is usefull to run debug tools such as gdb, valgrind, perf
+	  This is useful to run debug tools such as gdb, valgrind, perf
 	  etc. on a normal (not nfsroot) rootfs.
diff --git a/rules/alsa-lib.in b/rules/alsa-lib.in
index a4d408793..7361f1226 100644
--- a/rules/alsa-lib.in
+++ b/rules/alsa-lib.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## SECTION=system_libraries
 menuconfig ALSA_LIB
 	tristate
-	prompt "alsa libaries                 "
+	prompt "alsa libraries                "
 	select LIBC_DL
 	select LIBC_M
 	select LIBC_PTHREAD
diff --git a/rules/avahi.in b/rules/avahi.in
index 9338c5335..6288dbebe 100644
--- a/rules/avahi.in
+++ b/rules/avahi.in
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ config AVAHI_LIBAVAHI_CLIENT
 	select AVAHI_DAEMON
 	help
 	  A simplifying C wrapper around the D-Bus API.
-	  It is recommend using this API in C or C++ progams.
+	  It is recommend using this API in C or C++ programs.
 	  The D-Bus internals are hidden completely.
 
 config AVAHI_DBUS
diff --git a/rules/dropbear.in b/rules/dropbear.in
index 9b97d4bc9..fa6f283f1 100644
--- a/rules/dropbear.in
+++ b/rules/dropbear.in
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ config DROPBEAR_ZLIB
 	bool
 	prompt "zlib support"
 	help
-	  Disable compresion in Dropbear by dropping use of
+	  Disable compression in Dropbear by dropping use of
 	  zlib.
 	  If you disable zlib, you must explicitly disable
 	  compression for the client - OpenSSH is possibly
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ config DROPBEAR_DIS_AGENT
 	bool
 	prompt "disable Authentication Agent Forwarding"
 	help
-	  Authentication agent is a program to automatize the
+	  Authentication agent is a program to automate the
 	  use of authentication private keys.
 
 comment "Encryption, at least one required --- RFC Draft requires 3DES and recommends AES128"
diff --git a/rules/fbgrab.in b/rules/fbgrab.in
index ccab97461..3df86463b 100644
--- a/rules/fbgrab.in
+++ b/rules/fbgrab.in
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ config FBGRAB
 	prompt "fbgrab"
 	help
 	  FBGrab is a framebuffer screenshot program, capturing the
-	  linux frambuffer and converting it to a png-picture.
+	  linux framebuffer and converting it to a png-picture.
 
 	  For details see: http://hem.bredband.net/gmogmo/fbgrab/
diff --git a/rules/file.in b/rules/file.in
index 3f44cc380..c3858b13f 100644
--- a/rules/file.in
+++ b/rules/file.in
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ menuconfig FILE
 	  The file command is "a file type guesser", that is, a command-line tool
 	  that tells you in words what kind of data a file contains. Unlike most
 	  GUI systems, command-line UNIX systems - with this program leading the
-	  charge - don't rely on filename extentions to tell you the type of a
+	  charge - don't rely on filename extensions to tell you the type of a
 	  file, but look at the file's actual contents. This is, of course, more
 	  reliable, but requires a bit of I/O.
 	  
diff --git a/rules/fluxbox.in b/rules/fluxbox.in
index 7bec6bd76..74f91c031 100644
--- a/rules/fluxbox.in
+++ b/rules/fluxbox.in
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ config FLUXBOX_XPM
 
 config FLUXBOX_XFT
 	bool
-	prompt "Antialising font support"
+	prompt "Antialiasing font support"
 	help
 	  Fluxbox can use the Xft library to perform anti-aliased text
 	  rendering.
diff --git a/rules/freetype.in b/rules/freetype.in
index bc3a5d439..5176ea91b 100644
--- a/rules/freetype.in
+++ b/rules/freetype.in
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ config FREETYPE
 	  efficient and ubiquitous products.
 	  The FreeType library is their software font engine. In version 1 this
 	  library only supports true type fonts, since version 2 it supports all
-	  types of scaleable fonts. If you intent to use this library in an X
+	  types of scalable fonts. If you intent to use this library in an X
 	  environment, its only needed on client side, not on server side.
diff --git a/rules/glibc.in b/rules/glibc.in
index 2dddc70f5..16e5e84d1 100644
--- a/rules/glibc.in
+++ b/rules/glibc.in
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ config GLIBC_I18N_RAWDATA
 	help
 	  With the i18n datasets you can generate new locales in running
 	  system. This will, however, increase the installation size
-	  unneccessarily if you don't want to change your system locale
+	  unnecessarily if you don't want to change your system locale
 	  often. Hence we recommend to use the "System locale" option in
 	  ptxdist to determine locales while building the system.
 
diff --git a/rules/host-file.in b/rules/host-file.in
index dfba6dfcd..77e3757cd 100644
--- a/rules/host-file.in
+++ b/rules/host-file.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ config HOST_FILE
 	  The file command is "a file type guesser", that is, a command-line tool
 	  that tells you in words what kind of data a file contains. Unlike most
 	  GUI systems, command-line UNIX systems - with this program leading the
-	  charge - don't rely on filename extentions to tell you the type of a
+	  charge - don't rely on filename extensions to tell you the type of a
 	  file, but look at the file's actual contents. This is, of course, more
 	  reliable, but requires a bit of I/O.
 	  
diff --git a/rules/host-libaio.in b/rules/host-libaio.in
index 403744689..b6c8f9617 100644
--- a/rules/host-libaio.in
+++ b/rules/host-libaio.in
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ config HOST_LIBAIO
 	tristate
 	default y if ALLYES
 	help
-	  Requiered host part of some buildsystems
+	  Required host part of some buildsystems
diff --git a/rules/inetutils.in b/rules/inetutils.in
index 2f46110fc..7044b4b08 100644
--- a/rules/inetutils.in
+++ b/rules/inetutils.in
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ menuconfig INETUTILS_INETD
 	prompt "inetd                         "
 	help
 	  This is the network super daemon. It opens network connection for
-	  various other programs and start them if a connection request occures.
+	  various other programs and start them if a connection request occurs.
 
 if INETUTILS_INETD
 
diff --git a/rules/iproute2.in b/rules/iproute2.in
index 6e9f022d3..fe7564f6a 100644
--- a/rules/iproute2.in
+++ b/rules/iproute2.in
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ config IPROUTE2_ARPD
 	bool
 	prompt "arpd"
 	help
-	  Enabling this extry will enlarge your system by the berkely
+	  Enabling this entry will enlarge your system by the berkely
 	  DB4.x library.
 
 config IPROUTE2_BRIDGE
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ config IPROUTE2_SS
 	help
 	  ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing
 	  information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP
-	  and state informations than other tools.
+	  and state information than other tools.
 
 config IPROUTE2_TC
 	bool
diff --git a/rules/jamvm.in b/rules/jamvm.in
index 9b38c28ca..f4dcbfee9 100644
--- a/rules/jamvm.in
+++ b/rules/jamvm.in
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ config JAMVM_TRACE_DIRECT
 
 config JAMVM_TRACE_INLINING
 	bool
-	prompt "interpeter inlining tracing"
+	prompt "interpreter inlining tracing"
 endif
 
 endif
diff --git a/rules/joe.in b/rules/joe.in
index 727bd71f1..57e9214c1 100644
--- a/rules/joe.in
+++ b/rules/joe.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ if JOE
 config JOE_SYNTAX_HIGHLIGHT
 	bool
 	default y
-	prompt "Install syntax hilighting patterns"
+	prompt "Install syntax highlighting patterns"
 	help
 		This option will install the syntax highlighting for joe
 
diff --git a/rules/jvisu.in b/rules/jvisu.in
index c8dc5a51a..b9eb380db 100644
--- a/rules/jvisu.in
+++ b/rules/jvisu.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ menuconfig JVISU
 	  JVISU - A java applet based visualisation suite
 
  	  JVisu Highlights:
-	  Graphical Interface Builder for easy contruction of interfaces
+	  Graphical Interface Builder for easy construction of interfaces
 	  Clear Separation between HMI frontend and PLC backend
 	  Java applet runs in every JDK-1.4.x enabled web browser
 	  High performance due to optimized communication channels
diff --git a/rules/latrace.in b/rules/latrace.in
index 1c98fbb2f..a52147be3 100644
--- a/rules/latrace.in
+++ b/rules/latrace.in
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if LATRACE
 
 config LATRACE_DEMANGLE
 	bool
-	prompt "demangle supprt"
+	prompt "demangle support"
 	default y
 	help
 	  Enable support for the demangle feature, required to trace C++ libraries
diff --git a/rules/libcaca.in b/rules/libcaca.in
index e296341e2..ff1883c32 100644
--- a/rules/libcaca.in
+++ b/rules/libcaca.in
@@ -35,6 +35,6 @@ config LIBCACA_X11
 config LIBCACA_CXX
 	bool "C++ bindings"
 	help
-	  Select this if you want to use libcaca from C++ progams.
+	  Select this if you want to use libcaca from C++ programs.
 
 endif
diff --git a/rules/libcoap.in b/rules/libcoap.in
index b790b6a1f..baf55ac72 100644
--- a/rules/libcoap.in
+++ b/rules/libcoap.in
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ config LIBCOAP
 	prompt "libcoap"
 	help
 	  Lightweight application-protocol for devices that are constrained their
-	  resources such as computing power, RF range, memory, bandwith, or network
+	  resources such as computing power, RF range, memory, bandwidth, or network
 	  packet sizes. This protocol, CoAP, is developed in the IETF working group
 	  "CoRE", <http://6lowapp.net>.
diff --git a/rules/libcroco.in b/rules/libcroco.in
index 05025e092..ab709be2f 100644
--- a/rules/libcroco.in
+++ b/rules/libcroco.in
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ menuconfig LIBCROCO
 	  Services provided by Libcroco:
 
 	  * A parser module that provides o A SAC like api. SAC stands
-            for Simple Api for CSS. SAC is an event driven api wich
+            for Simple Api for CSS. SAC is an event driven api which
             resembles SAX in the xml world.
 
 	  * A CSSOM like api. CSSOM stands for Cascading Style Sheet
diff --git a/rules/libpciaccess.in b/rules/libpciaccess.in
index 3964bbe9e..03e6fcb76 100644
--- a/rules/libpciaccess.in
+++ b/rules/libpciaccess.in
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config LIBPCIACCESS_MTRR
 	  and if so enable this menuentry.
 	  BTW: MTRR stands for "memory type range registers" and its used to
 	  optimize accesses to various memory types, like main memory
-	  or memory accessible via busses like video memory on PCI cards.
+	  or memory accessible via buses like video memory on PCI cards.
 
 config LIBPCIACCESS_ZLIB
 	bool
diff --git a/rules/libxml2.in b/rules/libxml2.in
index bfbbf4d55..23b99614c 100644
--- a/rules/libxml2.in
+++ b/rules/libxml2.in
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ config LIBXML2_LEGACY
 	default y
 	prompt "Support for deprecated APIs"
 	help
-	  Add support for deprecated APIs (compatiblity)
+	  Add support for deprecated APIs (compatibility)
 
 config LIBXML2_MEM_DEBUG
 	bool
diff --git a/rules/ltp-kernel.in b/rules/ltp-kernel.in
index bc880f81d..93c9c1508 100644
--- a/rules/ltp-kernel.in
+++ b/rules/ltp-kernel.in
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ endif
 #	bool
 #	depends on LTP_KERNEL_FS
 #	help
-#	  Create files and open simultanously.
+#	  Create files and open simultaneously.
 #
 ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #
diff --git a/rules/openct.in b/rules/openct.in
index 94e5f4fac..59654aeba 100644
--- a/rules/openct.in
+++ b/rules/openct.in
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ config OPENCT_PCSC
 	  Use PCSC as the control daemon.
 
 config OPENCT_TOOLS
-	bool "Install utilites"
+	bool "Install utilities"
 	help
 	  Install also utilities like 'openct-tool', 'ifdhandler',
 	  'ifdproxy' and 'openct-control'.
diff --git a/rules/oprofile.in b/rules/oprofile.in
index 68fed8a1d..0cadf2122 100644
--- a/rules/oprofile.in
+++ b/rules/oprofile.in
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ config OPROFILE_VMLINUX
 	  Disabled by default.
 	  The vmlinux ELF file is needed to profile the kernel.
 	  Because this file is very large (too large for some filesysems), it
-	  can be ommited. Kernel profile is still possible by installing vmlinux
+	  can be omitted. Kernel profile is still possible by installing vmlinux
 	  in other filesystem, e.g. NFS.
 
 endif
diff --git a/rules/pcmciautils.in b/rules/pcmciautils.in
index d74d2fa3d..7a6230c5f 100644
--- a/rules/pcmciautils.in
+++ b/rules/pcmciautils.in
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ config PCMCIAUTILS_STARTUP
 	bool
 	prompt "Support dynamic sockets (STARTUP, PCCARD_NONSTATIC)"
 	help
-	  If this is enabled some more programms are built and installed to allow
+	  If this is enabled some more programs are built and installed to allow
 	  hotplugging of the pcmcia socket itself.
 	  "You don't need it if the socket driver does not select
 	  PCCARD_NONSTATIC -- that is the case for many embedded systems --
diff --git a/rules/poppler.in b/rules/poppler.in
index 8a7a48675..824c5e031 100644
--- a/rules/poppler.in
+++ b/rules/poppler.in
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ config POPPLER_BIN
 	bool
 	prompt "install poppler utilities"
 	help
-	  installs command line utilies comming with poppler package, contains
+	  installs command line utilies coming with poppler package, contains
 	  pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdftoabw, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops,
 	  pdftotext.
 
diff --git a/rules/pureftpd.in b/rules/pureftpd.in
index 4ab59382d..63b15263a 100644
--- a/rules/pureftpd.in
+++ b/rules/pureftpd.in
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ config PUREFTPD_UPLOADSCRIPT_SCRIPT
 	prompt "script path"
 	help
 	  Full path of the upload script
-	  Must not be left emtpy or unconfigured
+	  Must not be left empty or unconfigured
 
 endif
 
diff --git a/rules/qt4.in b/rules/qt4.in
index c504f842c..06bebfc2e 100644
--- a/rules/qt4.in
+++ b/rules/qt4.in
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ choice
 	prompt "LinuxFb             "
 	default QT4_GFX_LINUXFB_NONE
 	help
-	  Unaccelerated linux frambuffer driver
+	  Unaccelerated linux framebuffer driver
 
 	config QT4_GFX_LINUXFB_NONE
 		bool
@@ -333,9 +333,9 @@ config QT4_KBD_INPUT
 
 config QT4_KBD_QVFB
 	bool
-	prompt "Qt Virtual Frambuffer"
+	prompt "Qt Virtual Framebuffer"
 	help
-	  Keyboard driver for the Qt Virtual Frambuffer
+	  Keyboard driver for the Qt Virtual Framebuffer
 
 endmenu
 
@@ -364,9 +364,9 @@ config QT4_MOUSE_TSLIB
 
 config QT4_MOUSE_QVFB
 	bool
-	prompt "Qt Virtual Frambuffer"
+	prompt "Qt Virtual Framebuffer"
 	help
-	  Mouse driver for the Qt Virtual Frambuffer
+	  Mouse driver for the Qt Virtual Framebuffer
 
 endmenu
 
diff --git a/rules/rawrec.in b/rules/rawrec.in
index 0389ed19a..b5013cf35 100644
--- a/rules/rawrec.in
+++ b/rules/rawrec.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ config RAWREC
 	help
 	 rawrec and rawplay are GPL'd utilities designed to provide
 	 the user with a simple way of recording or playing raw audio data from
-	 or to their sound card under intel Linux (I havn't tested other
+	 or to their sound card under intel Linux (I haven't tested other
 	 architectures, but its written to be portable, I think)
 
 	 Details: http://rawrec.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/rules/rootfs.in b/rules/rootfs.in
index 686cc73fa..04f7a5287 100644
--- a/rules/rootfs.in
+++ b/rules/rootfs.in
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ config ROOTFS_DEV
 	default y
 	help
 	  This directory contains system's device nodes. This is a common
-	  location and name. For example udev depends on the existance of this
+	  location and name. For example udev depends on the existence of this
 	  directory
 
 config ROOTFS_DEV_INITIAL
diff --git a/rules/samba.in b/rules/samba.in
index 5185363c7..d71b9ab8a 100644
--- a/rules/samba.in
+++ b/rules/samba.in
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ config SAMBA_SMBFS
 	select SAMBA_COMMON
 	prompt "Samba file system"
 	help
-	  Enables the sytem to mount windows share via SMB protocol
+	  Enables the system to mount windows share via SMB protocol
 
 config SAMBA_CUPS
 	bool
diff --git a/rules/supertux.in b/rules/supertux.in
index cce88f8c5..0a44c02fc 100644
--- a/rules/supertux.in
+++ b/rules/supertux.in
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ config SUPERTUX
 	  a similar style like the original SuperMario games. This
 	  release of SuperTux features 9 enemies, 26 playable levels,
 	  software and OpenGL rendering modes, configurable joystick
-	  and keyboard input, new music and completly redone graphics.
+	  and keyboard input, new music and completely redone graphics.
 
diff --git a/rules/tcl.in b/rules/tcl.in
index bbdb6f8f4..50ce28719 100644
--- a/rules/tcl.in
+++ b/rules/tcl.in
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ menuconfig TCL
 	  actually implementing it when he got back to Berkeley in the spring
 	  of 1988; by summer of that year it was in use in some internal
 	  applications, but there was no Tk.  The first external releases of
-	  Tcl were in 1989. Tk implemention began in 1989, and the first
+	  Tcl were in 1989. Tk implementation began in 1989, and the first
 	  release of Tk was in 1991. [...]
 	  The current implementation uses a byte code interpreter and runtime
 	  compilation.
diff --git a/rules/tclap.in b/rules/tclap.in
index dd5cd4834..588c3881d 100644
--- a/rules/tclap.in
+++ b/rules/tclap.in
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ config TCLAP
 	  Templatized C++ Command Line Parser Library
 
 	  TCLAP is a small, flexible library that provides a simple interface
-	  for defining and accessing command line arguments. It was intially
-	  inspired by the user friendly CLAP libary. The difference is that
+	  for defining and accessing command line arguments. It was initially
+	  inspired by the user friendly CLAP library. The difference is that
 	  this library is templatized, so the argument class is type
 	  independent. Type independence avoids identical-except-for-type
 	  objects, such as IntArg, FloatArg, and StringArg. While the library
diff --git a/rules/uclibc.in b/rules/uclibc.in
index 66fd947ef..1fa99eba5 100644
--- a/rules/uclibc.in
+++ b/rules/uclibc.in
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ config UCLIBC_M
 	bool
 	prompt "Install libm"
 	help
-	  The C math libary
+	  The C math library
 
 config UCLIBC_NSL
 	bool
diff --git a/rules/xmlrpc-c.in b/rules/xmlrpc-c.in
index 0a18844da..100fd0fac 100644
--- a/rules/xmlrpc-c.in
+++ b/rules/xmlrpc-c.in
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ menuconfig XMLRPC_C
 	  for C and C++.
 
 	  STAGING: remove in ptxdist-2019.04.0
-	  Realy old version that fails to build gcc 7.x. should be updated
+	  Really old version that fails to build gcc 7.x. should be updated
 	  to a new version.
 
 if XMLRPC_C
diff --git a/rules/xorg-app-setxkbmap.in b/rules/xorg-app-setxkbmap.in
index 068b62428..d667bf847 100644
--- a/rules/xorg-app-setxkbmap.in
+++ b/rules/xorg-app-setxkbmap.in
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ config XORG_APP_SETXKBMAP
 	  a tiny terminal X server only, there is *no* need for this tool on the
 	  target. In this case only xkbcomp is required if you have trouble to
 	  configure a special keyboard mapping.
-	  For a full blown X server setxkbmap can be usefull, but is not
+	  For a full blown X server setxkbmap can be useful, but is not
 	  required for keyboard setup. It can be done by xorg.conf configuration
 	  and xkbcomp only at X server's startup.
diff --git a/rules/xorg-lib-Xft.in b/rules/xorg-lib-Xft.in
index c2633e215..5c9985e8e 100644
--- a/rules/xorg-lib-Xft.in
+++ b/rules/xorg-lib-Xft.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ config XORG_LIB_XFT
 	help
 	  This library is the X Font Library 2.x. (previous versions are called
 	  X Freetype Library). It supports client-side font rendering so it draws
-	  fonts independend from the X server side. The X server should support
+	  fonts independent from the X server side. The X server should support
 	  the X render extension to speed up rendering on the server side. Without
 	  this extension on X server side rendering will be very slow.
 	  The Xft library works in combination with the fontconfig and freetype2
diff --git a/rules/xorg-lib-Xrender.in b/rules/xorg-lib-Xrender.in
index 8da2a7413..38fb2c1e2 100644
--- a/rules/xorg-lib-Xrender.in
+++ b/rules/xorg-lib-Xrender.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config XORG_LIB_XRENDER
 	  The X Render Extension adds support for alpha-blended icons, anti-aliased
 	  fonts and drawing primitives, as well as true-color animated mouse cursors
 	  to the X window system.
-	  This library is recommeded if you want to run terminals with anti-aliased
+	  This library is recommended if you want to run terminals with anti-aliased
 	  fonts. Without this library on the terminal (=server) side everything gets
 	  rendered on the client side (=host), with a very bad performance.
 	  See lib-Xft for further details.