diff --git a/wp-admin/options-discussion.php b/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
index 6c5972e11..7aae7b6b2 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ include('options-head.php');
 		<input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" /> 
 		<input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="'default_pingback_flag','default_ping_status','default_comment_status','comments_notify','moderation_notify','comment_moderation','require_name_email','comment_max_links','moderation_keys'" /> 
 <fieldset class="options">
-        <legend><?php _e('Usual settings for an article: <em>(These settings may be overidden for individual articles.)</em>') ?></legend> 
+        <legend><?php _e('Usual settings for an article: <em>(These settings may be overridden for individual articles.)</em>') ?></legend> 
 		<ul> 
 			<li> 
 				<label for="default_pingback_flag"> 
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ include('options-head.php');
     <legend><?php _e('Comment Moderation') ?></legend>
     <p><?php printf(__('Hold a comment in the queue if it contains more than %s links. (A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.)'), '<input name="comment_max_links" type="text" id="comment_max_links" size="3" value="' . get_settings('comment_max_links'). '" />' ) ?></p>
 
-    <p><?php _e('When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URI,  email, or IP, hold it in the moderation queue: (Seperate multiple words with new lines.) <a href="http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/SpamWords">Common spam words</a>.') ?></p>
+    <p><?php _e('When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URI,  email, or IP, hold it in the moderation queue: (Separate multiple words with new lines.) <a href="http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/SpamWords">Common spam words</a>.') ?></p>
 		<p> 
 			<textarea name="moderation_keys" cols="60" rows="4" id="moderation_keys" style="width: 98%; font-size: 12px;" class="code"><?php echo get_settings('moderation_keys'); ?></textarea> 
 		</p> 
diff --git a/wp-admin/options-permalink.php b/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
index 7d2b2c86f..e22cdd219 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ default:
     <li><code>%postname%</code> --- A sanitized version of the title of the post. So &quot;This Is A Great Post!&quot; becomes &quot;<code>this-is-a-great-post</code>&quot; in the URI </li> 
     <li><code>%post_id%</code> --- The unique ID # of the post, for example <code>423</code> <strong></strong></li> 
   </ul> 
-  <p>So for example a value like </p>
+  <p>So for example a value like:</p>
   <p><code>/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/</code> </p>
-  <p>would give you a permalink like </p>
-  <p><code>/archives/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/</code> . </p>
-  <p> In general for this you must use mod_rewrite, however if you put a filename at the beginning WordPress will attempt to use that to pass the arguments, example:</p>
+  <p>would give you a permalink like:</p>
+  <p><code>/archives/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/</code></p>
+  <p> In general for this you must use mod_rewrite, however if you put a filename at the beginning WordPress will attempt to use that to pass the arguments, for example:</p>
   <p><code>/index.php/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/</code> </p>
   <p>If you use this option you can ignore the mod_rewrite rules. </p>
   <form name="form" action="options-permalink.php" method="post"> 
diff --git a/wp-admin/options-writing.php b/wp-admin/options-writing.php
index e24b3a39f..84b4d0d63 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options-writing.php
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ include('options-head.php');
     </table> 
     <fieldset class="options">
 	<legend><?php _e('Update Services') ?></legend>
-          <p><?php printf(__('Enter the sites that you would like to notify when you publish a new post. For a list of some recommended sites to ping please see <a href="%s">Update Services</a> on the wiki. Seperate multiple URIs by line breaks.'), 'http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/UpdateServices') ?></p>
+          <p><?php printf(__('Enter the sites that you would like to notify when you publish a new post. For a list of some recommended sites to ping please see <a href="%s">Update Services</a> on the wiki. Separate multiple URIs by line breaks.'), 'http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/UpdateServices') ?></p>
 	
 	<textarea name="ping_sites" id="ping_sites" style="width: 98%;"><?php echo get_settings('ping_sites'); ?></textarea>
 	</fieldset>
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index d7bf2abbb..41d4ccc83 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 
-// This just holds the version number, in a seperate file so we can bump it without cluttering the CVS
+// This just holds the version number, in a separate file so we can bump it without cluttering the CVS
 
-$wp_version = '1.2-alpha-4';
+$wp_version = '1.2-alpha-5';
 
 ?>
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