Typos in comments and manual

5 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/libraries/base/Control/Monad.hs b/libraries/base/Control/Monad.hs
index 131cc2800f..6a474037c0 100644
--- a/libraries/base/Control/Monad.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/Control/Monad.hs
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ f >=> g     = \x -> f x >>= g
 forever     :: (Applicative f) => f a -> f b
 {-# INLINE forever #-}
 forever a   = let a' = a *> a' in a'
--- Use explicit sharing here, as it is prevents a space leak regardless of
+-- Use explicit sharing here, as it prevents a space leak regardless of
 -- optimizations.
 
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/libraries/base/GHC/Generics.hs b/libraries/base/GHC/Generics.hs
index 4282b7c83b..cc85a1dfba 100644
--- a/libraries/base/GHC/Generics.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/GHC/Generics.hs
@@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ class Generic1 (f :: k -> *) where
 -- * In @MetaCons n f s@, @n@ is the constructor's name, @f@ is its fixity,
 --   and @s@ is @'True@ if the constructor contains record selectors.
 --
--- * In @MetaSel mn su ss ds@, if the field is uses record syntax, then @mn@ is
+-- * In @MetaSel mn su ss ds@, if the field uses record syntax, then @mn@ is
 --   'Just' the record name. Otherwise, @mn@ is 'Nothing'. @su@ and @ss@ are
 --   the field's unpackedness and strictness annotations, and @ds@ is the
 --   strictness that GHC infers for the field.
diff --git a/libraries/base/Text/Printf.hs b/libraries/base/Text/Printf.hs
index 7902d5eedc..0914aa7b5c 100644
--- a/libraries/base/Text/Printf.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/Text/Printf.hs
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module Text.Printf(
 --
 -- | This 'printf' can be extended to format types
 -- other than those provided for by default. This
--- is done by instancing 'PrintfArg' and providing
+-- is done by instantiating 'PrintfArg' and providing
 -- a 'formatArg' for the type. It is possible to
 -- provide a 'parseFormat' to process type-specific
 -- modifiers, but the default instance is usually
diff --git a/libraries/ghc-compact/GHC/Compact.hs b/libraries/ghc-compact/GHC/Compact.hs
index e3efaf24bc..d9581a521e 100644
--- a/libraries/ghc-compact/GHC/Compact.hs
+++ b/libraries/ghc-compact/GHC/Compact.hs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 --  dump the memory to disk and/or send it over the network.
 --  For applications that are not bandwidth bound (GHC's heap
 --  representation can be as much of a x4 expansion over a
---  binary serialization), this can lead to substantial speed ups.
+--  binary serialization), this can lead to substantial speedups.
 --
 -- For example, suppose you have a function @loadBigStruct :: IO BigStruct@,
 -- which loads a large data structure from the file system.  You can "compact"
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ import GHC.Types
 -- data, but it is perfomed only once.  However, because
 -- "Data.Compact.compact" does not stop-the-world, retaining internal
 -- sharing during the compaction process is very costly. The user
--- can choose wether to 'compact' or 'compactWithSharing'.
+-- can choose whether to 'compact' or 'compactWithSharing'.
 --
 -- When you have a @'Compact' a@, you can get a pointer to the actual object
 -- in the region using "Data.Compact.getCompact".  The 'Compact' type
diff --git a/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/CString.hs b/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/CString.hs
index 2adb13d8a0..cdda2db3ab 100644
--- a/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/CString.hs
+++ b/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/CString.hs
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Moreover, we want to make it CONLIKE, so that:
   E.g. the eqString rule in PrelRules
    eqString (unpackCString# (Lit s1)) (unpackCString# (Lit s2) = s1==s2
 
-* exprIsConApp_maybe will see the string when we ahve
+* exprIsConApp_maybe will see the string when we have
      let x = unpackCString# "foo"#
      ...(case x of algs)...