diff --git a/contrib/gitview/gitview b/contrib/gitview/gitview
index 4c99dfb903..4e23c650fe 100755
--- a/contrib/gitview/gitview
+++ b/contrib/gitview/gitview
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ class GitView(object):
 
 		#The first parent always continue on the same line
 		try:
-			# check we alreay have the value
+			# check we already have the value
 			tmp_node_pos = self.nodepos[commit.parent_sha1[0]]
 		except KeyError:
 			self.colours[commit.parent_sha1[0]] = colour
diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
index 476e0a2bc0..3f8d993afa 100755
--- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
+++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ sub get_mw_namespace_id {
 	# Store "notANameSpace" as special value for inexisting namespaces
 	my $store_id = ($id || 'notANameSpace');
 
-	# Store explicitely requested namespaces on disk
+	# Store explicitly requested namespaces on disk
 	if (!exists $cached_mw_namespace_id{$name}) {
 		run_git(qq(config --add remote.${remotename}.namespaceCache "${name}:${store_id}"));
 		$cached_mw_namespace_id{$name} = 1;
diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test-gitmw-lib.sh b/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test-gitmw-lib.sh
index ca6860ff30..3372b2af34 100755
--- a/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test-gitmw-lib.sh
+++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test-gitmw-lib.sh
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ test_diff_directories () {
 # Check that <dir> contains exactly <N> files
 test_contains_N_files () {
 	if test `ls -- "$1" | wc -l` -ne "$2"; then
-		echo "directory $1 sould contain $2 files"
+		echo "directory $1 should contain $2 files"
 		echo "it contains these files:"
 		ls "$1"
 		false
diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test.config b/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test.config
index 4cfebe9c69..5ba0684162 100644
--- a/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test.config
+++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/t/test.config
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SERVER_ADDR=localhost
 TMP=/tmp
 DB_FILE=wikidb.sqlite
 
-# If LIGHTTPD is not set to true, the script will use the defaut
+# If LIGHTTPD is not set to true, the script will use the default
 # web server running in WIKI_DIR_INST.
 WIKI_DIR_INST=/var/www