doc: Fix some misspellings.

Change-Id: I567aec7b1fac91234f46886c35affa6bd6e582d9

5 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 308b82b976..c73f16deb4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ This is an extension of ‘python-build-system’ with support for PEP-517 and
 *** ‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’ now relies on statically-linked QEMU
 *** ‘sysctl-service-type’ enables Linux protected hardlinks/symlinks by default
 *** ‘%base-services’ now includes a default ‘sysctl-service-type’ instance
-*** Linux Logical Volumne Manager (LVM) now supported, via ‘lvm-device-mapping’
+*** Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) now supported, via ‘lvm-device-mapping’
 *** ‘guix system init’ has been optimized
 *** ‘guix system’ warns when users/groups appear more than once
 *** ‘guix system image -t rock64-raw’ produces images for Rock64 devices
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ documentation, package descriptions, and the web site.
 * Changes in 1.2.0 (since 1.1.0)
 
 ** Package management
-*** ‘guix pull’ now crytographically authenticates channels
+*** ‘guix pull’ now cryptographically authenticates channels
 *** ‘guix describe -f channels’ now shows “channel introductions”
 *** ‘guix describe -f channels-sans-intro’ omits channel introductions
 *** New ‘guix git authenticate’ command, to authenticate Git checkouts
@@ -3349,7 +3349,7 @@ zimg@2.5, zlib@1.2.11, znc@1.6.5
 *** Create home directories once file systems are mounted
     (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21108>)
 *** GNU R now builds bit-reproducibly (<https://bugs.gnu.org/25598>)
-*** The daemon’s default settings are used unless overriden
+*** The daemon’s default settings are used unless overridden
     (<https://bugs.gnu.org/20217>)
 *** ‘guix system’ now supports the common build option ‘--root’
     (<https://bugs.gnu.org/26271>)
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index f854f7fa98..6011b6cc1c 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
 *** Add more partitioning schemes
 The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not
 implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp".
-*** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait"
+*** Replace wait page "Partition formatting is in progress, please wait"
 Create a new waiting page describing what's being done:
 
 [              20%              ]
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ...
 
 [              40%              ]
 Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ...
-*** Add a confirmation page before formating/partitioning
+*** Add a confirmation page before formatting/partitioning
 ** Desktop environments
 *** Allow for no desktop environments
 Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index c94ae940fa..ab4f30d54b 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -3465,9 +3465,9 @@ Guile does not know in which order you intended the string to be read, so it
 will substitute the symbols in the same order as the English sentence.
 
 As an example, you cannot translate @samp{package '~a' has been superseded by
-'~a'} by @samp{'~a' superseeds package '~a'}, because the meaning would be
+'~a'} by @samp{'~a' supersedes package '~a'}, because the meaning would be
 reversed.  If @var{foo} is superseded by @var{bar}, the translation would read
-@samp{'foo' superseeds package 'bar'}.  To work around this problem, it
+@samp{'foo' supersedes package 'bar'}.  To work around this problem, it
 is possible to use more advanced formatting to select a given piece of data,
 instead of following the default English order.  @xref{Formatted Output,,,
 guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}, for more information on formatting in Guile.
diff --git a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
index cbb0163bd3..789130528a 100644
--- a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
+++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
@@ -1833,7 +1833,7 @@ In the above example @code{%file-systems} is a collection of flags
 enabling different file system support, @code{%efi-support} enables EFI
 support and @code{%emulation} enables a x86_64-linux machine to act in
 32-bit mode also.  The @code{default-extra-linux-options} procedure is
-the one defined above, which had to be used to avoid loosing the default
+the one defined above, which had to be used to avoid losing the default
 configuration options of the @code{extra-options} keyword.
 
 This all sounds like it should be doable, but how does one even know which
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 54a736c518..59d9ae5dce 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -36926,7 +36926,7 @@ local syslog daemon.  Alternatively, a log file name can be specified,
 for example @file{/var/log/mpd.log}.
 
 @item @code{log-level} (type: maybe-string)
-Supress any messages below this threshold.  The available values, in
+Suppress any messages below this threshold.  The available values, in
 decreasing order of verbosity, are: @code{verbose}, @code{info},
 @code{notice}, @code{warning} and @code{error}.
 
@@ -41532,7 +41532,7 @@ Print debugging output to stderr.
 Log to syslog facility instead of stdout.
 
 @item @code{scan?} (default: @code{#t}) (type: boolean)
-Scan for cachable objects.
+Scan for cacheable objects.
 
 @item @code{cache-directory} (type: maybe-string)
 Location of the cache directory.
@@ -42635,13 +42635,13 @@ Whether to automatically configure subuids and subgids for root.
 @item @code{subgids} (default: @code{'()}) (type: list-of-subid-ranges)
 The list of @code{subid-range}s that will be serialized to @code{/etc/subgid}.
 If a range doesn't specify a start it will be fitted based on its number of
-requrested subids.  If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
+requested subids.  If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
 of 65536 will be assumed.
 
 @item @code{subuids} (default: @code{'()}) (type: list-of-subid-ranges)
 The list of @code{subid-range}s that will be serialized to @code{/etc/subuid}.
 If a range doesn't specify a start it will be fitted based on its number of
-requrested subids.  If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
+requested subids.  If a range doesn't specify a count the default size
 of 65536 will be assumed.
 
 @end table
@@ -43321,7 +43321,7 @@ Whether to enable verbose output for the current backup job.
 @item @code{extra-flags} (default: @code{'()}) (type: list-of-lowerables)
 A list of values that are lowered to strings.  These will be passed as
 command-line arguments to the current job @command{restic backup}
-invokation.
+invocation.
 
 @end table
 
@@ -47442,7 +47442,7 @@ The expected home directory state would then be:
 @end example
 
 @defvar home-dotfiles-service-type
-Return a service which is very similiar to @code{home-files-service-type}
+Return a service which is very similar to @code{home-files-service-type}
 (and actually extends it), but designed to ease the way into using Guix
 Home for users that already track their dotfiles under some kind of version
 control.  This service allows users to point Guix Home to their dotfiles