Minor spelling fixes

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d2996202..d0237e96 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 ## Unreleased
 * [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jymzh):
   Provide a new and improved filesystem plugin for Linux & Mac (filesystem2), to
-  support CentOS7, multiple virtual filesystes, etc.
+  support CentOS7, multiple virtual filesystems, etc.
 * [**Jonathan Amiez**](https://github.com/josqu4red):
   Linux filesystems plugin report wrong fs-type for logical volumes
 * [**involucelate**](https://github.com/involucelate)
   Fix windows 2008 hostname truncation #554
 * [**Pavel Yudin**](https://github.com/Kasen):
-  Detect Parallels host and guest virtualisation
+  Detect Parallels host and guest virtualization
 * [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jymzh):
   Fix Darwin filesystem plugin on newer MacOSX
 * [**Claire McQuin**](https://github.com/mcquin):
@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@
 * [**Jean Baptiste Favre**](https://github.com/jbfavre):
   Detect updated docker cgroup format
 * [**Shahul Khajamohideen**](https://github.com/sh9189):
-  Fix memory plugin output on solaris
-* [**Sean Horn**](https://github.com/sean-horn):
-  ec2 plugin should handle binary userdata too
-* [**Shahul Khajamohideen**](https://github.com/sh9189):
+  Fix memory plugin output on Solaris
   Add swap space attributes for solaris memory plugin
   Add swap space attributes for AIX
+* [**Sean Horn**](https://github.com/sean-horn):
+  ec2 plugin should handle binary userdata too
 * [**Alexey Karpik**](https://github.com/akarpik):
   Add support for SoftLayer cloud
 * [**MichaelSp**](https://github.com/MichaelSp):
@@ -60,8 +59,7 @@
 * [**Michael Glenney**](https://github.com/Maniacal)
   Remove redundant if statement
 
-* Remove Cloudstack support due to GPL licensed library
-* Add support for Softlayer Cloud
+* Remove CloudStack support due to GPL licensed library
 
 ## Release 8.1.1
 * Fix broken DigitalOcean plugin
@@ -91,9 +89,9 @@
 * [**Sten Spans**](https://github.com/sspans)
   Fix network.rb for XenServer Creedence
 * [**Shuo Zhang**](https://github.com/zshuo)
-  Update linux plugin cpu.rb and spec_cpu.rb to support S390
+  Update Linux plugin cpu.rb and spec_cpu.rb to support S390
 * [**Alexey Karpik**](https://github.com/akarpik)
-  Fix up incorrect cloudstack metadata
+  Fix up incorrect CloudStack metadata
 * [**Jeff Goldschrafe**](https://github.com/jgoldschrafe)
   cloud_v2 fails to initialize on GCE hosts without external IP
 * [**Ryan Chipman**](https://github.com/rychipman)
@@ -112,7 +110,7 @@
 * [**sawanoboly**](https://github.com/sawanoboly)
   Retrieve OpenStack-specific metadata.
 * [**Olle Lundberg**](https://github.com/lndbrg)
-  Add Cloudstack support.
+  Add CloudStack support.
 * [**Tim Smith**](https://github.com/tas50)
   Remove newlines in CPU strings on Darwin.
 * [**Nathan Huff**](https://github.com/nhuff)
@@ -207,12 +205,12 @@
 * Skip v7 plugins when refreshing a v6 plugin. Fixes (OHAI-562)
   `Ohai::Exceptions::AttributeNotFound` errors in Chef's ohai resource
 * Work around libc bug in `hostname --fqdn`
-* Report Suse and OpenSuse seperately in the :platform attribute.
-* CPU information matching linux is now available on darwin.
+* Report Suse and OpenSuse separately in the :platform attribute.
+* CPU information matching Linux is now available on Darwin.
 * ip6address detection failure logging is turned down to :debug.
 * fe80:: link-local address is not reported as ip6addresses anymore.
 * Private network information is now available as [:rackspace][:private_networks] on Rackspace nodes.
-* System init mechanism is now reported at [:init_package] on linux.
+* System init mechanism is now reported at [:init_package] on Linux.
 * Define cloud plugin interface (OHAI-542)
 * java -version wastes memory (OHAI-550)
 * Ohai cannot detect running in an lxc container (OHAI-551)
diff --git a/OHAI_MVPS.md b/OHAI_MVPS.md
index c0d02b2b..a46901a7 100644
--- a/OHAI_MVPS.md
+++ b/OHAI_MVPS.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Every release of Chef and Ohai we pick someone from the community to name as the
 
 #### Hall of Fame
 
-After receiving three MVP awards from Chef and Ohai releases, we add someone to the hall of fame. We want to express our gratitude to their continuing participation and give newer community members the opportunity to be reconignized.
+After receiving three MVP awards from Chef and Ohai releases, we add someone to the hall of fame. We want to express our gratitude to their continuing participation and give newer community members the opportunity to be recognized.
 
 The [MVP list](https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/CHEF_MVPS.md) is kept in the Chef project.
 
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 5d1c2996..27cd8a3c 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ problems:
 * Can handle a device mounted multiple places
 * Is resilient to mtab being a symlink to /proc/mounts
 * Provides multiple views for ease of use
-* Provides a mechanism that has gauranteed lack of overwritten data
+* Provides a mechanism that has guaranteed lack of overwritten data
 * Forks far fewer times than it's predecessor
 
 Unlike the 'filesystem' plugin, it provides 3 views into the data:
 
 * `by_pair` is the primary one and what most users are expected to use. It
-  gaurantees no loss of data from conflict and has an entry in the hash for each
+  guarantees no loss of data from conflict and has an entry in the hash for each
   pair of $device,$mountpoint (or "$device," for unmounted devices).
 * `by_device` a similar layout to the original filesystem plugin which is
   indexed by device, except that 'mount' entry is now 'mounts' and is an array.