diff --git a/functions/curl.xml b/functions/curl.xml
index 5974ccdc9b..d9aba3b603 100644
--- a/functions/curl.xml
+++ b/functions/curl.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.23 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.24 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.curl">
   <title>CURL, Client URL Library Functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>CURL</titleabbrev>
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ curl_close ($ch);
        <simpara>
         <parameter>CURLOPT_FAILONERROR</parameter>: Set this option to
         a non-zero value if you want PHP to fail silently if the HTTP
-        code returned is greater than 300.  The default behaviour is
+        code returned is greater than 300.  The default behavior is
         to return the page normally, ignoring the code.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ curl_close ($ch);
         <parameter>CURLOPT_RANGE</parameter>: Pass the specified range
         you want.  It should be in the "X-Y" format, where X or Y may
         be left out.  The HTTP transfers also support several
-        intervals, seperated with commas as in X-Y,N-M.
+        intervals, separated with commas as in X-Y,N-M.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ curl_close ($ch);
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <parameter>CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE</parameter>: Pass a string
-        containing the name of the file containing the cookiee data.
+        containing the name of the file containing the cookie data.
         The cookie file can be in Netscape format, or just plain
         HTTP-style headers dumped into a file.
        </simpara>
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ curl_close ($ch);
      </funcprototype>
     </funcsynopsis>
     <para>
-     This functions closes a CURL session and frees all ressources.
+     This functions closes a CURL session and frees all res sources.
      The CURL handle, <parameter>ch</parameter>, is also deleted.
     </para>
    </refsect1>
diff --git a/functions/cybermut.xml b/functions/cybermut.xml
index ced0163561..c5666e615b 100755
--- a/functions/cybermut.xml
+++ b/functions/cybermut.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.13 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.cybermut">
   <title>Cr&eacute;dit Mutuel CyberMUT functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>CyberMUT</titleabbrev>
@@ -204,11 +204,11 @@ if ($mac_ok) {
     </funcsynopsis>
     <para>
      <function>cybermut_creerreponsecm</function> returns a string containing 
-     delivery aknowledgement message.
+     delivery acknowledgement message.
     </para>
     <para>
      The parameter is "OK" if the message of confirmation of the payment
-     were correctly auhentified by <function>cybermut_testmac</function>.
+     were correctly identified by <function>cybermut_testmac</function>.
      Any other chain is regarded as an error message.
     </para>
     <para> 
diff --git a/functions/datetime.xml b/functions/datetime.xml
index 7633ab3c40..33ef55b9f5 100644
--- a/functions/datetime.xml
+++ b/functions/datetime.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.62 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.63 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.datetime">
   <title>Date and Time functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>Date/time</titleabbrev>
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ $nextyear  = mktime (0,0,0,date("m"),  date("d"),  date("Y")+1);
      </example>
      <note>
       <para>
-       This can be more reliable than simply adding or substracting the number
+       This can be more reliable than simply adding or subtracting the number
        of seconds in a day or month to a timestamp because of daylight savings
        time.
       </para>
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ $nextyear  = mktime (0,0,0,date("m"),  date("d"),  date("Y")+1);
      you should escape any other characters, as any which currently
      have a special meaning will produce undesirable results, and
      other characters may be assigned meaning in future PHP versions.
-     When escaping, bu sure to use single quotes to prevent characters
+     When escaping, be sure to use single quotes to prevent characters
      like \n from become newlines.
      <example>
       <title>
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ echo gmstrftime ("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", mktime (20,0,0,12,31,98))."\n";
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
-        "tm_mon" - month of the year, starting with 0 for january
+        "tm_mon" - month of the year, starting with 0 for January
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ echo strftime ("Last day in Feb 2000 is: %d", $lastday);
     <simpara>
     Date with year, month and day equal to zero is considered illegal 
     (otherwise it what be regarded as 30.11.1999, which would be strange
-     behaviour).
+     behavior).
     </simpara>
     <para>
      See also <function>date</function> and <function>time</function>.
diff --git a/functions/dbm.xml b/functions/dbm.xml
index 3bfa634c23..8ff32253b7 100644
--- a/functions/dbm.xml
+++ b/functions/dbm.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.15 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.16 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.dbm">
   <title>DBM Functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>DBM</titleabbrev>
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ dbmclose ($dbm);
      respectively.
     </para>
     <para>
-     Returns an identifer to be passed to the other DBM functions on
+     Returns an identifier to be passed to the other DBM functions on
      success, or &false; on failure.
     </para>
     <para>