diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dddfd84..e7bafe8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ Release 2014b - 2014-03-24 21:28:50 -0700
   Changes affecting code
 
     'zic' and 'localtime' no longer reject locations needing four transitions
-    per year for the forseeable future.  (Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram).)
+    per year for the foreseeable future.  (Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram).)
     Also, 'zic' avoids some unlikely failures due to integer overflow.
 
   Changes affecting build procedure
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 081b2b0..2536f72 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Rule	PRC	1987	1991	-	Apr	Sun>=10	0:00	1:00	D
 #     the official calendar book of 1914.
 #   * The French Concession in Shanghai set up signal stations in
 #     French docks in the 1890s, controlled by Xujiahui (Zikawei)
-#     Obervatory and set to local mean time.
+#     Observatory and set to local mean time.
 #   * "From the end of the 19th century" it changed to UT+8.
 #   * Chinese Customs (by then reduced to a tool of foreign powers)
 #     eventually standardized on this time for all ports, and it
diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index 1e5f5fc..ba88fd2 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco	-4:31:12 -	LMT	1914
 # From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
 # Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
 
-# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-02): [geychaner@mac.com]
+# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-02):
 # It appears that the Chilean government has decided to postpone the
 # change from summer time to winter time again, by three weeks to April
 # 2nd:
diff --git a/tz-art.htm b/tz-art.htm
index 31d8c9e..6aa6043 100644
--- a/tz-art.htm
+++ b/tz-art.htm
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ The 1953 railway comedy movie "The Titfield Thunderbolt" includes a
 play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants
 him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?"
 And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time."
-IMDB page:
+IMDb page:
 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">
 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/
 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the
 crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to
 the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the
 last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 &times; 60 = 10.)
-IMDB page:
+IMDb page:
 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">
 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/
 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)