diff --git a/DOCS/tech/TODO b/DOCS/tech/TODO
index fdfec6fb9c..36ddefcf1b 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/TODO
+++ b/DOCS/tech/TODO
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ CVS CLEANUP work:
   - bte.diff - something input plugin (uses fork() )
   - lavc_statsfile_errorchecking-patch - handle errors writing to logfile
   - xine-lib-cvs-xvmc.diff - XvMC support for libmpeg2 0.3.x
-  - fastermemcpy.diff - cacheline-size dependant optimizations
+  - fastermemcpy.diff - cacheline-size dependent optimizations
   - fire-x86-runtime-options.diff - en/disable (force) cpu features runtime
     (needs to be integrated with --runtime-cpu-detection en/disabled modes)
   - mga_vid_laced.diff - buggy interlace support into mga_vid
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt b/DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt
index 91701d86ea..baf866e715 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt
+++ b/DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ bits (i.e. 900kbps is 900000))
 
 This way it apeared that the minimum bits per block is ~40, very
 good results are with ~50, and everything above 60 is a waste of bandwidth.
-And what's actually funny is that it was independant of codec used. The
+And what's actually funny is that it was independent of codec used. The
 results were exactly the same, whether I used DIV3 (with tricky nandub's
 magick), ffmpeg odivx, DivX5 on Windows or XviD.
 
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/hwac3.txt b/DOCS/tech/hwac3.txt
index e5e42670d4..b3a7e9a757 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/hwac3.txt
+++ b/DOCS/tech/hwac3.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ options snd-pcm-oss snd_dsp_map=0 snd_adsp_map=2	# do the mapping
 
 This works flawlessly in combination with alsa's native 
 SysVrc-init-script 'alsasound'. Be sure to disable any distribution 
-dependant script (e.g. Mandrake-8.1 has an 'alsa' script which depends 
+dependent script (e.g. Mandrake-8.1 has an 'alsa' script which depends 
 on ALSA-0.5).
 
 Sorry for you *BSD'lers out there. I have no grasp on sound support there.
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/playtree b/DOCS/tech/playtree
index d6d686291e..0e9a7d3184 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/playtree
+++ b/DOCS/tech/playtree
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Ok, that's all for now. To have some exemples look into mplayer.c ;)
 First just after config parsing, the iterator is created there. Also
 after stream opening, in case the stream is a playlist it replace the
 entry which contained the playlist by the result of the parsing.
-In the event handeling it check if a step can be done, etc. And finnaly
+In the event handling it check if a step can be done, etc. And finnaly
 at the end it go the next entry.
 
 Suggestion, flames, etc about this doc must go to albeu@free.fr
diff --git a/cfg-common.h b/cfg-common.h
index ab01146d92..e313d62c46 100644
--- a/cfg-common.h
+++ b/cfg-common.h
@@ -649,9 +649,9 @@ m_option_t msgl_config[]={
         "   mencoder\n"
         "   xacodec    - XAnim codecs\n"
         "   tv         - TV input subsystem\n"
-        "   osdep      - OS Dependant parts (linux/ for now)\n"
+        "   osdep      - OS-dependent parts\n"
         "   spudec     - spudec.c\n"
-        "   playtree   - Playtree handeling (playtree.c, playtreeparser.c)\n"
+        "   playtree   - Playtree handling (playtree.c, playtreeparser.c)\n"
         "   input\n"
         "   vfilter\n"
         "   osd\n"
diff --git a/libmpcodecs/ae_lavc.c b/libmpcodecs/ae_lavc.c
index a62740f102..d8b0e2c865 100644
--- a/libmpcodecs/ae_lavc.c
+++ b/libmpcodecs/ae_lavc.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ int mpae_init_lavc(audio_encoder_t *encoder)
 
 	/*
 	* Special case for adpcm_ima_wav.
-	* The bitrate is only dependant on samplerate.
+	* The bitrate is only dependent on samplerate.
 	* We have to known frame_size and block_align in advance,
 	* so I just copied the code from libavcodec/adpcm.c
 	*
diff --git a/libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c b/libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c
index 3998c38cd8..c1c1c085d7 100644
--- a/libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c
+++ b/libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ void mp_msp_av_log_callback(void* ptr, int level, const char* fmt, va_list vl)
                     if(s->codec->decode)
                         type= MSGT_DECVIDEO;
                 }
-                //FIXME subtitles, encoders (what msgt for them? there is no appropiate ...)
+                //FIXME subtitles, encoders (what msgt for them? there is no appropriate ...)
             }
         }else if(!strcmp(avc->class_name, "AVFormatContext")){
 #if 0 //needs libavformat include FIXME iam too lazy to do this cleanly,probably the whole should be moved out of this file ...
diff --git a/mp_msg.h b/mp_msg.h
index 891c28ff74..875f1de4e1 100644
--- a/mp_msg.h
+++ b/mp_msg.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ extern int verbose;
 
 #define MSGT_TV 24	// TV input subsystem
 
-#define MSGT_OSDEP 25	// OS Dependant parts (linux/ for now)
+#define MSGT_OSDEP 25	// OS-dependent parts
 
 #define MSGT_SPUDEC 26	// spudec.c
 
diff --git a/xvid_vbr.c b/xvid_vbr.c
index d3a7388faa..015a812c71 100644
--- a/xvid_vbr.c
+++ b/xvid_vbr.c
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ static int vbr_getquant_2pass2(void *sstate)
 
 	state->desired_bytes2 = bytes2;
 
-	/* Ugly dependance between getquant and getintra */
+	/* Ugly dependence between getquant and getintra */
 	intra = state->getintra(state);
 
 	if(intra) {