diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
index 427d8f6ceb..44856dce3f 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ DateDetailView
 .. note::
 
     All of the generic views listed above have matching ``Base`` views that
-    only differ in that the they do not include the
+    only differ in that they do not include the
     :class:`~django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin`:
 
     .. class:: BaseArchiveIndexView
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/commands.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/commands.txt
index 3bacb03bc1..2933f54720 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/commands.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/commands.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ of using ``ogrinspect`` :ref:`in the tutorial <ogrinspect-intro>`.
 .. django-admin-option:: --name-field <name_field>
 
    Generates a ``__unicode__`` routine (``__str__`` on Python 3) on the model
-   that will return the the given field name.
+   that will return the given field name.
 
 .. django-admin-option:: --no-imports
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt
index 38c93e60ee..d411553fbe 100644
--- a/docs/ref/databases.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ indexing and searching until MySQL 5.6.4.
 
 Since MySQL 5.5.5, the default storage engine is InnoDB_. This engine is fully
 transactional and supports foreign key references. It's probably the best
-choice at this point. However, note that the the InnoDB autoincrement counter
+choice at this point. However, note that the InnoDB autoincrement counter
 is lost on a MySQL restart because it does not remember the
 ``AUTO_INCREMENT`` value, instead recreating it as "max(id)+1". This may
 result in an inadvertent reuse of :class:`~django.db.models.AutoField` values.
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
index 9921322051..07886b78d6 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ related. This works exactly the same as it does for :class:`ForeignKey`,
 including all the options regarding :ref:`recursive <recursive-relationships>`
 and :ref:`lazy <lazy-relationships>` relationships.
 
-If you do not specify the the :attr:`~ForeignKey.related_name` argument for
+If you do not specify the :attr:`~ForeignKey.related_name` argument for
 the ``OneToOneField``, Django will use the lower-case name of the current model
 as default value.