diff --git a/README.RELEASE_PROCESS b/README.RELEASE_PROCESS
index 4343b6213c1..21305f29934 100644
--- a/README.RELEASE_PROCESS
+++ b/README.RELEASE_PROCESS
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Rolling a stable release
 1. Checkout your release branch, you should have created when releasing previous RC
 and bump the version numbers in ``main/php_version.h``, ``configure.in`` and possibly ``NEWS``.
 
-2. If a CVE commit needs to be merged to the release, then have it commited to
+2. If a CVE commit needs to be merged to the release, then have it committed to
 the base branches and merged upwards as usual (f.e commit the CVE fix to 5.3,
 merge to 5.4, 5.5 etc...). Then you can cherry-pick it in your release branch.
 Don't forget to update NEWS manually in an extra commit then.
diff --git a/build/buildcheck.sh b/build/buildcheck.sh
index 8754e3a292a..8ff3531825f 100755
--- a/build/buildcheck.sh
+++ b/build/buildcheck.sh
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ ac_version=`$PHP_AUTOCONF --version 2>/dev/null|head -n 1|sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//'
 if test -z "$ac_version"; then
 echo "buildconf: autoconf not found."
 echo "           You need autoconf version 2.59 or newer installed"
-echo "           to build PHP from SVN."
+echo "           to build PHP from Git."
 exit 1
 fi
 IFS=.; set $ac_version; IFS=' '
 if test "$1" = "2" -a "$2" -lt "59" || test "$1" -lt "2"; then
 echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version found."
 echo "           You need autoconf version 2.59 or newer installed"
-echo "           to build PHP from SVN."
+echo "           to build PHP from Git."
 exit 1
 else
 echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version (ok)"
diff --git a/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic b/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic
index aa75fb65bc1..b554333a6cf 100644
--- a/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic
+++ b/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic
@@ -4888,7 +4888,7 @@
 >>0	ubyte		0xF5		FoxPro with memo
 # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/st4a0s68(v=vs.80).aspx
 #>>0	ubyte		0xFA		FoxPro 2.x, with memo
-# unkown version (should not happen)
+# unknown version (should not happen)
 >>0	default		x		xBase
 >>>0	ubyte		x		(0x%x)
 # flags in version byte
@@ -6115,7 +6115,7 @@
 >>>>>379	string	GRUB\ \0		\b, GRUB version 0.95 or 0.96
 >>>>391		string	Geom\0Hard\ Disk\0Read\0\ Error\0
 >>>>>385	string	GRUB\ \0		\b, GRUB version 0.97
-#unkown version
+#unknown version
 >>>343		string	Geom\0Read\0\ Error\0	
 >>>>321		string	Loading\ stage1.5	\b, GRUB version x.y
 >>>380		string	Geom\0Hard\ Disk\0Read\0\ Error\0
diff --git a/ext/pgsql/php_pgsql.h b/ext/pgsql/php_pgsql.h
index d6dab56c4c4..12d6cfdead4 100644
--- a/ext/pgsql/php_pgsql.h
+++ b/ext/pgsql/php_pgsql.h
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ typedef enum _php_pgsql_data_type {
 	PG_PATH,
 	PG_POLYGON,
 	PG_CIRCLE,
-	/* unkown and system */
+	/* unknown and system */
 	PG_UNKNOWN
 } php_pgsql_data_type;
 
diff --git a/ext/standard/dns_win32.c b/ext/standard/dns_win32.c
index 2dbf3e2e1da..a784823dd37 100644
--- a/ext/standard/dns_win32.c
+++ b/ext/standard/dns_win32.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static void php_parserr(PDNS_RECORD pRec, int type_to_fetch, int store, int raw,
 #endif
 
 		default:
-			/* unkown type */
+			/* unknown type */
 			zval_ptr_dtor(subarray);
 			*subarray = NULL;
 			return;
diff --git a/ext/tokenizer/tests/token_get_all_variation14.phpt b/ext/tokenizer/tests/token_get_all_variation14.phpt
index 5fc390e36ca..52d29198c7f 100644
--- a/ext/tokenizer/tests/token_get_all_variation14.phpt
+++ b/ext/tokenizer/tests/token_get_all_variation14.phpt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ struct myStruct {
 ?>';
 var_dump( token_get_all($source));
 
-// with invalid open tag for testing entire source to be unkown token
+// with invalid open tag for testing entire source to be unknown token
 echo "-- with invlalid PHP open tag & valid tokens --\n";
 $source = '<pli 
 echo "hello world"; ?>';