diff --git a/PROJECTS.md b/PROJECTS.md
index 87ce78f02..f53a2e120 100644
--- a/PROJECTS.md
+++ b/PROJECTS.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ So, you want to start helping out with `libgit2`? That's fantastic! We
 welcome contributions and we promise we'll try to be nice.
 
 This is a list of libgit2 related projects that new contributors can take
-on.  It includes a number of good starter projects and well as some larger
+on.  It includes a number of good starter projects as well as some larger
 ideas that no one is actively working on.
 
 ## Before You Start
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ some incremental steps listed towards the larger goal.  Those steps
 might make good smaller projects by themselves.
 
 * Port part of the Git test suite to run against the command line emulation
-  in examples/
-    * Pick a Git command that is emulated in our examples/ area
+  in `examples/`
+    * Pick a Git command that is emulated in our `examples/` area
     * Extract the Git tests that exercise that command
     * Convert the tests to call our emulation
-    * These tests could go in examples/tests/...
+    * These tests could go in `examples/tests/`...
 * Add hooks API to enumerate and manage hooks (not run them at this point)
     * Enumeration of available hooks
     * Lookup API to see which hooks have a script and get the script
diff --git a/THREADING.md b/THREADING.md
index 0b9e50286..e9be8b99f 100644
--- a/THREADING.md
+++ b/THREADING.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ of libssh2 as described above, `git_openssl_set_locking()` is a no-op.
 
 If your programming language offers a package/bindings for OpenSSL,
 you should very strongly prefer to use that in order to set up
-locking, as they provide a level of coördination which is impossible
+locking, as they provide a level of coordination which is impossible
 when using this function.
 
 See the
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ if there are alternatives provided by the system.
 libssh2 may be linked against OpenSSL or libgcrypt. If it uses OpenSSL,
 see the above paragraphs. If it uses libgcrypt, then you need to
 set up its locking before using it multi-threaded. libgit2 has no
-direct connection to libgcrypt and thus has not convenience functions for
+direct connection to libgcrypt and thus has no convenience functions for
 it (but libgcrypt has macros). Read libgcrypt's
 [threading documentation for more information](http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Multi_002dThreading.html)
 
diff --git a/src/openssl_stream.c b/src/openssl_stream.c
index b8ab21fef..cab7d9457 100644
--- a/src/openssl_stream.c
+++ b/src/openssl_stream.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ int git_openssl_set_locking(void)
 	git__on_shutdown(shutdown_ssl_locking);
 	return 0;
 #else
-	giterr_set(GITERR_THREAD, "libgit2 as not built with threads");
+	giterr_set(GITERR_THREAD, "libgit2 was not built with threads");
 	return -1;
 #endif
 }