diff --git a/README b/README
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 should always set the default interface. If you listen on INADDR_ANY then it
 will use the default interface to listen on.
 
-Exmaple: 
+Example: 
 LD_PRELOAD=libsocket_wrapper.so \
 SOCKET_WRAPPER_DIR=/path/to/socket_dir \
 ./mydaemon
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/DefineCMakeDefaults.cmake b/cmake/Modules/DefineCMakeDefaults.cmake
--- a/cmake/Modules/DefineCMakeDefaults.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/DefineCMakeDefaults.cmake
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 # Put the include dirs which are in the source or build tree
 # before all other include dirs, so the headers in the sources
-# are prefered over the already installed ones
+# are preferred over the already installed ones
 # since cmake 2.4.1
 set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES_PROJECT_BEFORE ON)
 
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/DefineInstallationPaths.cmake b/cmake/Modules/DefineInstallationPaths.cmake
--- a/cmake/Modules/DefineInstallationPaths.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/DefineInstallationPaths.cmake
@@ -104,6 +104,6 @@
   set(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR "plugins" CACHE PATH "-")
   set(HTML_INSTALL_DIR "doc/HTML" CACHE PATH "-")
   set(ICON_INSTALL_DIR "icons" CACHE PATH "-")
-  set(SOUND_INSTALL_DIR "soudns" CACHE PATH "-")
+  set(SOUND_INSTALL_DIR "sounds" CACHE PATH "-")
   set(LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR "lang" CACHE PATH "-")
 endif ()
diff --git a/src/socket_wrapper.c b/src/socket_wrapper.c
--- a/src/socket_wrapper.c
+++ b/src/socket_wrapper.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@
 /*
  * IMPORTANT
  *
- * Functions expeciall from libc need to be loaded individually, you can't load
+ * Functions especially from libc need to be loaded individually, you can't load
  * all at once or gdb will segfault at startup. The same applies to valgrind and
  * has probably something todo with with the linker.
  * So we need load each function at the point it is called the first time.
@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@
 		ip->v4.tos		= 0x00;
 		ip->v4.packet_length	= htons(wire_len - icmp_truncate_len);
 		ip->v4.identification	= htons(0xFFFF);
-		ip->v4.flags		= 0x40; /* BIT 1 set - means don't fraqment */
+		ip->v4.flags		= 0x40; /* BIT 1 set - means don't fragment */
 		ip->v4.fragment		= htons(0x0000);
 		ip->v4.ttl		= 0xFF;
 		ip->v4.protocol		= protocol;
@@ -1640,7 +1640,7 @@
 			ip->v4.tos		= 0x00;
 			ip->v4.packet_length	= htons(wire_len - icmp_hdr_len);
 			ip->v4.identification	= htons(0xFFFF);
-			ip->v4.flags		= 0x40; /* BIT 1 set - means don't fraqment */
+			ip->v4.flags		= 0x40; /* BIT 1 set - means don't fragment */
 			ip->v4.fragment		= htons(0x0000);
 			ip->v4.ttl		= 0xFF;
 			ip->v4.protocol		= icmp_protocol;
@@ -2395,7 +2395,7 @@
 
 /* using sendto() or connect() on an unbound socket would give the
    recipient no way to reply, as unlike UDP and TCP, a unix domain
-   socket can't auto-assign emphemeral port numbers, so we need to
+   socket can't auto-assign ephemeral port numbers, so we need to
    assign it here.
    Note: this might change the family from ipv6 to ipv4
 */