Spelling/doc formatting fixes.

5 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/libcore/cell.rs b/src/libcore/cell.rs
index 093b3f57047..60c9020f14e 100644
--- a/src/libcore/cell.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/cell.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
 // except according to those terms.
 
-//! Sharable mutable containers.
+//! Shareable mutable containers.
 //!
 //! Values of the `Cell` and `RefCell` types may be mutated through
 //! shared references (i.e. the common `&T` type), whereas most Rust
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 //! preventing crash bugs. Because of that, inherited mutability is
 //! preferred, and interior mutability is something of a last
 //! resort. Since cell types enable mutation where it would otherwise
-//! be disallowed though, there are occassions when interior
+//! be disallowed though, there are occasions when interior
 //! mutability might be appropriate, or even *must* be used, e.g.
 //!
 //! * Introducing inherited mutability roots to shared types.
diff --git a/src/libcore/fmt/mod.rs b/src/libcore/fmt/mod.rs
index af492dc295a..ae6962d76fa 100644
--- a/src/libcore/fmt/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/fmt/mod.rs
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ pub trait FormatWriter {
     /// This function will return an instance of `FormatError` on error.
     fn write(&mut self, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result;
 
-    /// Glue for usage of the `write!` macro with implementors of this trait.
+    /// Glue for usage of the `write!` macro with implementers of this trait.
     ///
     /// This method should generally not be invoked manually, but rather through
     /// the `write!` macro itself.
diff --git a/src/libcore/iter.rs b/src/libcore/iter.rs
index da1462a7047..eea9c9c0812 100644
--- a/src/libcore/iter.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/iter.rs
@@ -872,10 +872,12 @@ pub trait OrdIterator<A> {
     /// `min_max` finds the minimum and maximum elements in the iterator.
     ///
     /// The return type `MinMaxResult` is an enum of three variants:
+    ///
     /// - `NoElements` if the iterator is empty.
     /// - `OneElement(x)` if the iterator has exactly one element.
-    /// - `MinMax(x, y)` is returned otherwise, where `x <= y`. Two values are equal if and only if
-    /// there is more than one element in the iterator and all elements are equal.
+    /// - `MinMax(x, y)` is returned otherwise, where `x <= y`. Two
+    ///    values are equal if and only if there is more than one
+    ///    element in the iterator and all elements are equal.
     ///
     /// On an iterator of length `n`, `min_max` does `1.5 * n` comparisons,
     /// and so faster than calling `min` and `max separately which does `2 * n` comparisons.
diff --git a/src/libcore/kinds.rs b/src/libcore/kinds.rs
index 148b63dfbfe..770aa7547ff 100644
--- a/src/libcore/kinds.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/kinds.rs
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ pub mod marker {
     #[deriving(Eq,Clone)]
     pub struct NoCopy;
 
-    /// A type which is considered "not sharable", meaning that
+    /// A type which is considered "not shareable", meaning that
     /// its contents are not threadsafe, hence they cannot be
     /// shared between tasks.
     #[lang="no_share_bound"]
diff --git a/src/libcore/result.rs b/src/libcore/result.rs
index 46f4427e838..5a3599e4827 100644
--- a/src/libcore/result.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/result.rs
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
 //! The suitability of `fail!` as an error handling mechanism is
 //! limited by Rust's lack of any way to "catch" and resume execution
 //! from a thrown exception. Therefore using failure for error
-//! handling requires encapsulating fallable code in a task. Calling
+//! handling requires encapsulating fallible code in a task. Calling
 //! the `fail!` macro, or invoking `fail!` indirectly should be
 //! avoided as an error reporting strategy. Failure is only for
 //! unrecoverable errors and a failing task is typically the sign of