docs: spelling correction

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/docs/autoexec_sample.ini b/docs/autoexec_sample.ini
index f39aa35667..5b80ffa370 100644
--- a/docs/autoexec_sample.ini
+++ b/docs/autoexec_sample.ini
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 ;More on those quadruplets:
 ;Consider, for example, the background bitmap of the contact tree. If you look
 ;in the options you'll see that there are three basic settings controlling it:
-;Whether to use that or a solid colour, the filename to use, and a mass of
+;Whether to use that or a solid color, the filename to use, and a mass of
 ;check boxes.
 ;These three categories map on to three database settings that you can see
 ;with dbwiz.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 ;Note about security:
 ;This file clearly makes it possible to sneak in a change to a user's ICQ
-;login server, for instance, while you change their colour scheme. This could
+;login server, for instance, while you change their color scheme. This could
 ;be used to glean UINs and passwords without their knowledge.
 ;Miranda has security in place that means the user will be warned before any
 ;changes are made to the settings of modules that are not known to be safe.
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 ;be necessary to restart Miranda before the changes take effect.
 
 ;The example that follows, then, is a heavily annotated script to provide a
-;new background bitmap for the contact list and set the text colour to yellow.
+;new background bitmap for the contact list and set the text color to yellow.
 ;It's assumed that you have packaged background.bmp in a .zip with this file
 ;and provided the user with instructions to dump both files in their Miranda
 ;directory.
@@ -77,19 +77,19 @@ BkBitmap=sbackground.bmp
 BkBmpUse=w3
 
 ;Font0 is the 'standard contacts' setting on the list text options page.
-;Font0Col, therefore, is the colour setting of that font.
+;Font0Col, therefore, is the color setting of that font.
 ;d is for dword.
 ;The 0x prefix is signifying this number as hexadecimal. You can also prefix
 ;0 to use octal, and negative numbers work too.
-;ffff00 you will recognise as yellow from your HTML experience.
+;ffff00 you will recognize as yellow from your HTML experience.
 Font0Col=d0xffff00
 
 ;--end of example--
 
 ;There are two data types that haven't been used here: blob and delete.
-;Delete is easy: just use eg "BkColour=l" (that's a lowercase L). This example
-;causes the background solid colour to be the same colour as the users choice
-;for 3D objects facing straight on, eg most of the taskbar.
+;Delete is easy: just use e.g., "BkColour=l" (that's a lowercase L). This example
+;causes the background solid color to be the same color as the users choice
+;for 3D objects facing straight on, e.g., most of the taskbar.
 ;Blobs are of the form "Font=n03 f5 2a" where those are hexadecimal pairs
 ;representing each byte to set.
 
diff --git a/docs/mirandaboot.ini b/docs/mirandaboot.ini
index 9f29da377d..82fa8860de 100644
--- a/docs/mirandaboot.ini
+++ b/docs/mirandaboot.ini
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Safe=CLC Icons CLUI CList SkinSounds
 Unsafe=AIM Facebook GG ICQ IRC JABBER MRA MSN SKYPE Tlen TWITTER VKontakte

 

 ;OverrideSecurityFilename

-;System admins may find it desirable to install settings without prompting

+;System administrators may find it desirable to install settings without prompting

 ;the user. In that case all prompts and security will be overridden if

 ;the name of the ini matches the name given here.

 ;If this is used, make sure it's suitably random and hence not likely

diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt
index 9547a8ffaa..06bafe52ac 100644
--- a/docs/readme.txt
+++ b/docs/readme.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ b) Update to the latest alpha version.
 c) Check the list of known bugs.

    The official buglist is available at:

    https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/issues

-   Look here before you submit a new report, dont submit a new report if

+   Look here before you submit a new report, don't submit a new report if

    it has already been reported.

 d) Submit a bugreport.