diff --git a/src/README b/src/README
index 6b902280..7b0448a5 100644
--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ More documentation can be found in the doc/ directory or at http://www.recoll.or
    Xapian will not convert automatically an existing index from the Quartz to
    the Flint format. If you have an older index and want to take advantage of
    the new format (which can be done without setting the environment variable
-   as of Recoll 1.8.2 and Xapian 1.0.0), you will have to explicitely delete
+   as of Recoll 1.8.2 and Xapian 1.0.0), you will have to explicitly delete
    the old index, then run a normal indexing process.
 
    Unfortunately, using the -z option to recollindex is not sufficient to
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ More documentation can be found in the doc/ directory or at http://www.recoll.or
    session waits.
 
    By default the indexing daemon will monitor the state of the X11 session,
-   and exit when it finishes, it is not necessary to kill it explicitely.
+   and exit when it finishes, it is not necessary to kill it explicitly.
    (The X11 server monitoring can be disabled with option -x to recollindex).
 
    Under KDE, you can place a small script to start recollindex -m under
@@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@ More documentation can be found in the doc/ directory or at http://www.recoll.or
    of HTML documents (for example a manual) so that they become their own
    search interface inside konqueror.
 
-   This can be done by either explicitely inserting <a href="recoll:/...">
+   This can be done by either explicitly inserting <a href="recoll:/...">
    links around some document areas, or automatically by adding a very small
    javascript program to the documents, like the following example, which
    would initiate a search by double-clicking any term:
diff --git a/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5 b/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5
index ea9717db..142f8955 100644
--- a/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5
+++ b/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Size limit for compressed (.gz or .bz2) files. These need to be
 decompressed in a temporary directory for identification, which can be very
 wasteful if 'uninteresting' big compressed files are present.  Negative
 means no limit, 0 means no processing of any compressed file. Defaults 
-to -1.
+to \-1.
 .TP
 .BI "indexallfilenames = " boolean
 Recoll indexes file names into a special section of the database to allow
diff --git a/src/doc/man/recollindex.1 b/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
index 9c64ce75..703e5204 100644
--- a/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
+++ b/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ If option
 \-m 
 is given, recollindex is started for real time monitoring, using the
 file system monitoring package it was configured for (either fam, gamin, or
-inotify). This mode must have been explicitely configured when building the
+inotify). This mode must have been explicitly configured when building the
 package, it is not available by default. The program will normally detach
 from the controlling terminal and become a daemon. If option
 .B
diff --git a/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml b/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml
index d0b84d42..131556c2 100644
--- a/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml
+++ b/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ recoll
 	<literal>Flint</literal> format. If you have an older index
 	and want to take advantage of the new format (which can be
 	done without setting the environment variable as of &RCL;
-	1.8.2 and &XAP; 1.0.0), you will have to explicitely delete
+	1.8.2 and &XAP; 1.0.0), you will have to explicitly delete
 	the old index, then run a normal indexing process.</para>
 
 	<para>Unfortunately, using the <literal>-z</literal> option to
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ fvwm
       for which the session waits.</para> <para>By default the
       indexing daemon will monitor the state of the X11 session, and
       exit when it finishes, it is not necessary to kill it
-      explicitely. (The X11 server monitoring can be disabled with option
+      explicitly. (The X11 server monitoring can be disabled with option
       <literal>-x</literal> to <command>recollindex</command>).
       </para>
 
@@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@ fvwm
       they become their own search interface inside
       <command>konqueror</command>.</para>
 
-      <para>This can be done by either explicitely inserting
+      <para>This can be done by either explicitly inserting
       <literal>&lt;a&nbsp;href="recoll:/..."&gt;</literal> links 
       around some document areas, or automatically by adding a
       very small <application>javascript</application> program to the
diff --git a/src/filters/rclsvg b/src/filters/rclsvg
index eca854d6..dfda7a0a 100755
--- a/src/filters/rclsvg
+++ b/src/filters/rclsvg
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ if test X$encoding = X ; then encoding=UTF-8;fi
 #
 # The whole thing wholly ignore issues like '<' inside quoted strings.
 #
-# We could/should add code to explicitely separate title and other
+# We could/should add code to explicitly separate title and other
 # metadata elements.
 
 # Insert new line before each tag