diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index 7dc3fa59..0e10660b 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Installation
 
-We have multiple ways to install Kompose. Our prefered method is downloading the binary from the latest GitHub release.
+We have multiple ways to install Kompose. Our preferred method is downloading the binary from the latest GitHub release.
 
 #### GitHub release
 
diff --git a/docs/user-guide.md b/docs/user-guide.md
index 8b2eccdd..998c981d 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide.md
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ $ kompose up --provider openshift --build build-config
 
 ## Alternative Conversions
 
-The default `kompose` transformation will generate Kubernetes [Deployments](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/deployments/) and [Services](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/services/), in yaml format. You have alternative option to generate json with `-j`. Also, you can alternatively generate [Replication Controllers](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/replication-controller/) objects, [Deamon Sets](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/daemons/), or [Helm](https://github.com/helm/helm) charts.
+The default `kompose` transformation will generate Kubernetes [Deployments](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/deployments/) and [Services](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/services/), in yaml format. You have alternative option to generate json with `-j`. Also, you can alternatively generate [Replication Controllers](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/replication-controller/) objects, [Daemon Sets](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/daemons/), or [Helm](https://github.com/helm/helm) charts.
 
 ```sh
 $ kompose convert -j
diff --git a/script/check-gofmt.sh b/script/check-gofmt.sh
index 84999f54..e9849446 100755
--- a/script/check-gofmt.sh
+++ b/script/check-gofmt.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ done
 if [ ${#errors[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
 	echo "gofmt OK"
 else
-	echo "gofmt ERROR - These files are not formated by gofmt:"
+	echo "gofmt ERROR - These files are not formatted by gofmt:"
 	for err in "${errors[@]}"; do
 		echo "$err"
 	done