diff --git a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
index 377ad04..3926af5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   * systemd platform now defaults to targeting /etc/systemd/system for writing
     unit files. This was chosen based on research across across 7 different
     Linux distributions.
-  * fix a bug where attempting to detect systemd would crash becuase
+  * fix a bug where attempting to detect systemd would crash because
     `systemctl` was not available.
 
 == 0.0.21 (May 16, 2016)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
   * Fix bug in OS detection
   
 == 0.0.18 (May 6, 2016)
-  * Support newer Facter api (Aaron Mildtenstein)
+  * Support newer Facter api (Aaron Mildenstein)
 
 == 0.0.17 (May 4, 2016)
   * Added detection for Fedora 22 and 23, OS X 10.11, and Ubuntu 14.10, 15.04, 15.50, and 16.04. (#98, Aaron Mildenstein)
diff --git a/lib/pleaserun/configurable.rb b/lib/pleaserun/configurable.rb
index 765e36c..b640d18 100644
--- a/lib/pleaserun/configurable.rb
+++ b/lib/pleaserun/configurable.rb
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def all_attributes
   #
   # Both validation and munge blocks are optional.
   #
-  # The 'validate' block is expcted to fail if the value given to the
+  # The 'validate' block is expected to fail if the value given to the
   # facet is not valid.
   #
   # The 'munge' block is intended to help you coerce a value.  For example, if
diff --git a/spec/pleaserun/platform/sysv_spec.rb b/spec/pleaserun/platform/sysv_spec.rb
index fc37a9c..0a071f9 100644
--- a/spec/pleaserun/platform/sysv_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/pleaserun/platform/sysv_spec.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     etc_initd_writable = File.stat("/etc/init.d").writable? rescue false
     p :WRIT => etc_initd_writable
     if !etc_initd_writable
-      it "cannot write to /etc/init.d, so there's no deployment test to do. To run these tests, you'll need to run this as root, and preferrably in a vm or other temporary system"
+      it "cannot write to /etc/init.d, so there's no deployment test to do. To run these tests, you'll need to run this as root, and preferably in a vm or other temporary system"
     else
       it_behaves_like PleaseRun::Platform do
         let(:skip) { "Cannot write to /etc/init.d" } unless etc_initd_writable