diff --git a/reference/objaggregation/functions/aggregate-properties-by-list.xml b/reference/objaggregation/functions/aggregate-properties-by-list.xml
index 9d1578bcfa..31a7f346a2 100644
--- a/reference/objaggregation/functions/aggregate-properties-by-list.xml
+++ b/reference/objaggregation/functions/aggregate-properties-by-list.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
  <refentry id="function.aggregate-properties-by-list">
    <refnamediv>
     <refname>aggregate_properties_by_list</refname>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
      Aggregates properties from a class to
-     an existing object using a list of property names. The optional paramater
+     an existing object using a list of property names. The optional parameter
      <parameter>exclude</parameter> is used to decide whether the list 
      contains the names of class properties to include in the aggregation (i.e.
      <parameter>exclude</parameter> is &false;, which is the default value),
diff --git a/reference/oci8/functions/oci-fetch-array.xml b/reference/oci8/functions/oci-fetch-array.xml
index a6b2bf6d27..14ac673858 100644
--- a/reference/oci8/functions/oci-fetch-array.xml
+++ b/reference/oci8/functions/oci-fetch-array.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
   <refentry id="function.oci-fetch-array">
    <refnamediv>
     <refname>oci_fetch_array</refname>
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     </para>
     &database.fetch-null;
     <para>
-     Optional second paramater can be any combination of the following
+     Optional second parameter can be any combination of the following
      constants:
      <simplelist>
       <member>
diff --git a/reference/var/functions/get-defined-vars.xml b/reference/var/functions/get-defined-vars.xml
index 0b66ac5e63..b96d9280ef 100644
--- a/reference/var/functions/get-defined-vars.xml
+++ b/reference/var/functions/get-defined-vars.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/var.xml, last change in rev 1.34 -->
   <refentry id="function.get-defined-vars">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ print_r($arr["b"]);
  * e.g. /usr/local/bin/php */
 echo $arr["_"];
 
-// print the command-line paramaters if any
+// print the command-line parameters if any
 print_r($arr["argv"]);
 
 // print all the server vars
diff --git a/reference/var/functions/get-resource-type.xml b/reference/var/functions/get-resource-type.xml
index 63a508e85f..c1e1a213fe 100644
--- a/reference/var/functions/get-resource-type.xml
+++ b/reference/var/functions/get-resource-type.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/var.xml, last change in rev 1.75 -->
   <refentry id="function.get-resource-type">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
      This function returns a string representing the type of the
-     <type>resource</type> passed to it. If the paramater is not a valid
+     <type>resource</type> passed to it. If the parameter is not a valid
      <type>resource</type>, it generates an error.
     </para>
     <para>