--- doc/options.text
+++ doc/options.text
@@ -95,20 +95,20 @@
 
 <dt/nidx/ Pretend having the <code/NIDX/ token in the face attribute.
 
-<dt/1c, 2c, 1s, 2s/ Simmilar to <code/nidx/ modify the value in effect
+<dt/1c, 2c, 1s, 2s/ Similar to <code/nidx/ modify the value in effect
 of the face attribute in the top level document.
 
-<dt/no-margin/ No page margin in the (ascii) output. Only implemented
+<dt/no-margin/ No page margin in the (ASCII) output. Only implemented
 for lout processing at the moment.
 
 <dt/HTML2/ Don't use HTML-3 features in formatting.
 
-<dt/linuxdoc/ Work around some hard wired assumtions of the
+<dt/linuxdoc/ Work around some hard wired assumptions of the
 linuxdoc DTD when processing.
 
 </desc>
 
 <em/Attention!/ Be careful to supply the <em/exact/ name to the
-<code/ -R/ option. The same policy as for dotfiles applies to those
-files: if they don't exist they are silently not loaded! THere is no
+<code/ -R/ option. The same policy as for dot files applies to those
+files: if they don't exist they are silently not loaded! There is no
 warning message.