diff --git a/README_maintainer b/README_maintainer
index 37d1494..5d1a67a 100644
--- a/README_maintainer
+++ b/README_maintainer
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ release.  The release process is a single make command:
 The release number for minor releases look like this:  =7.13.01=
 
 Minor releases are small amends to main releases.  Usually they fix
-bugs discovered in a main release.  The only yhe fix to the bug is
-bundled into a release, without the main development work going on on
+bugs discovered in a main release.  Only the fix to the bug is
+bundled into a release, without the main development work going on in
 the master branch.  Since the big fix will also be needed in the
 master branch, usually the fix is made in master and then
 cherry-picked into maint.  When this is done, a release is made from
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ maint with this command:
 
 This is still a significant headache.  Some hand work is needed here.
 
-Emacs uses bzr, I cannot bring myself to swith from git to bzr for the
+Emacs uses bzr, I cannot bring myself to switch from git to bzr for the
 development version of Org-mode.  So the way I have been doing things
 is this:
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ is this:
 
 2. When I have made a release (usually I wait for the minor releases
    to stabilize), I copy org files into the Emacs repository.  Yes, I
-   do not merge, I copy.  This has ben the source of some problems in
+   do not merge, I copy.  This has been the source of some problems in
    the past - but I have not had the patience to work out a better
    mechanism.