diff --git a/README.recovery b/README.recovery
index 286bb360..bda564bc 100644
--- a/README.recovery
+++ b/README.recovery
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The process event is responsible for executing synchronization.  This event
 will return a state as to whether it has completed or not.  This allows for
 synchronization to be interrupted and recontinue when the message queue buffer
 is full.  The process event will be called again by the synchronization service
-if requesed to do so by the return variable returned in process.
+if requested to do so by the return variable returned in process.
 
 abort:
 The abort event occurs when during synchronization a processor failure occurs.
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ have completed.
 
 CHECKPOINT SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHM:
 ------------------------------------
-The purpose of the checkpoint syncrhonization algorithm is to synchronize
-checkpoints after a paritition or merge of two or more partitions.  The
+The purpose of the checkpoint synchronization algorithm is to synchronize
+checkpoints after a partition or merge of two or more partitions.  The
 secondary purpose of the algorithm is to determine the cluster-wide reference
 count for every checkpoint.
 
 Every cluster contains a group of checkpoints.  Each checkpoint has a
 checkpoint name and checkpoint number.  The number is used to uniquely reference
-an unlinked but still open checkpoint in the cluser.
+an unlinked but still open checkpoint in the cluster.
 
 Every checkpoint contains a reference count which is used to determine when
 that checkpoint may be released.  The algorithm rebuilds the reference count
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ checkpoint data
 	number of opened connections to checkpoint and node identifier
 	refcount contains a summation of every reference count in the refcount_set
 
-pseudocode executed by a processor when the syncrhonization service calls
+pseudocode executed by a processor when the synchronization service calls
 the init event
 	call process_checkpoints_enter
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ the process event in the SYNC_REFCOUNT state
 
 sync_checkpoints_enter:
 	my_sync_state = SYNC_CHECKPOINT
-	my_current_iteration_state set to start of checkpont list
+	my_current_iteration_state set to start of checkpoint list
 
 sync_refcounts_enter:
 	my_sync_state = SYNC_REFCOUNT