diff --git a/contrib/modsecurity/README b/contrib/modsecurity/README
index 8031389..8e74016 100644
--- a/contrib/modsecurity/README
+++ b/contrib/modsecurity/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ModSecurity for HAProxy
 -----------------------
 
-This is a third party deamon which speaks SPOE. It gives requests send by HAProxy
+This is a third party daemon which speaks SPOE. It gives requests send by HAProxy
 to ModSecurity and returns the verdict.
 
   Compilation
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 	cp standalone/*.h $PWD/INSTALL/include
 	cp apache2/*.h $PWD/INSTALL/include
 
-Note that this compilation method works, but is a litle bit rustic. I can't
-deal with Lua, I supposed that is a dependecies problem on my computer.
+Note that this compilation method works, but is a little bit rustic. I can't
+deal with Lua, I supposed that is a dependencies problem on my computer.
 
   Start the service
 ---------------------
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
    -    rc = apr_global_mutex_create(&msce->auditlog_lock, NULL, APR_LOCK_DEFAULT, mp);
    +    rc = apr_global_mutex_create(&msce->auditlog_lock, NULL, APR_LOCK_PROC_PTHREAD, mp);
 
-* Configuration file loaded with wilcard (eg. Include rules/*.conf), are loaded
+* Configuration file loaded with wildcard (eg. Include rules/*.conf), are loaded
   in reverse alphabetical order. You can found a patch below. The ModSecurity
   team ignored this patch.
 
diff --git a/contrib/prometheus-exporter/README b/contrib/prometheus-exporter/README
index 1cd58b3..379dbc3 100644
--- a/contrib/prometheus-exporter/README
+++ b/contrib/prometheus-exporter/README
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
 Prometheus is a monitoring and alerting system. More and more people use it to
 monitor their environment (this is written February 2019). It collects metrics
 from monitored targets by scraping metrics HTTP endpoints on these targets. For
-HAProxy, The Prometheus team offically supports an exporter written in Go
+HAProxy, The Prometheus team officially supports an exporter written in Go
 (https://github.com/prometheus/haproxy_exporter). But it requires an extra
 software to deploy and monitor. PROMEX, on its side, is a built-in Prometheus
 exporter for HAProxy. It was developed as a service and is directly available in
 HAProxy, like the stats applet.
 
 However, PROMEX is not built by default with HAProxy. It is provided as an extra
-component for everyone want to use it. So you need to explicity build HAProxy
+component for everyone want to use it. So you need to explicitly build HAProxy
 with the PROMEX service, using the Makefile variable "EXTRA_OBJS". For instance:
 
     > make TARGET=linux-glibc EXTRA_OBJS="contrib/prometheus-exporter/service-prometheus.o"
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 PROMEX, all lines for a given metric are provided as one single group. So
 instead of collecting all metrics for a proxy before moving to the next one, we
 must loop on all proxies for each metric. Same for the servers. Thus, it will
-spend much more ressources to produce the Prometheus metrics than the CSV export
+spend much more resources to produce the Prometheus metrics than the CSV export
 through the stats page. To give a comparison order, quick benchmarks shown that
 a PROMEX dump is 5x slower and 20x more verbose than a CSV export.
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 | haproxy_process_pool_used_bytes                | Total amount of memory used in pools (in bytes).                              |
 | haproxy_process_pool_failures_total            | Total number of failed pool allocations.                                      |
 | haproxy_process_max_fds                        | Maximum number of open file descriptors; 0=unset.                             |
-| haproxy_process_max_sockets                    | Maximum numer of open sockets.                                                |
+| haproxy_process_max_sockets                    | Maximum number of open sockets.                                               |
 | haproxy_process_max_connections                | Maximum number of concurrent connections.                                     |
 | haproxy_process_hard_max_connections           | Initial Maximum number of concurrent connections.                             |
 | haproxy_process_current_connections            | Number of active sessions.                                                    |
diff --git a/contrib/spoa_server/README b/contrib/spoa_server/README
index d820807..6bafcde 100644
--- a/contrib/spoa_server/README
+++ b/contrib/spoa_server/README
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 
 Python:
 
- * Improve repporting: Catch python error message and repport it in the right
+ * Improve reporting: Catch python error message and report it in the right
    place. Today the error are dumped on stdout. How using syslog for logging
    stack traces ?