diff --git a/docs/ref/applications.txt b/docs/ref/applications.txt
index d73e8307474..dd120905dff 100644
--- a/docs/ref/applications.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/applications.txt
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Methods
         In the usual initialization process, the ``ready`` method is only called
         once by Django. But in some corner cases, particularly in tests which
         are fiddling with installed applications, ``ready`` might be called more
-        than once. In that case, either write idempotents methods, or put a flag
+        than once. In that case, either write idempotent methods, or put a flag
         on your ``AppConfig`` classes to prevent re-running code which should
         be executed exactly one time.
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/actions.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/actions.txt
index 5757e2e39b2..b3d9f0eb0d9 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/actions.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/actions.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Writing action functions
 ------------------------
 
 First, we'll need to write a function that gets called when the action is
-trigged from the admin. Action functions are just regular functions that take
+triggered from the admin. Action functions are just regular functions that take
 three arguments:
 
 * The current :class:`ModelAdmin`
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt
index 88e601523d6..365b6a99c91 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ GDAL API
    :synopsis: GeoDjango's high-level interface to the GDAL library.
 
 `GDAL`__ stands for **Geospatial Data Abstraction Library**,
-and is a veritable "swiss army knife" of GIS data functionality.  A subset
+and is a veritable "Swiss army knife" of GIS data functionality.  A subset
 of GDAL is the `OGR`__ Simple Features Library, which specializes
 in reading and writing vector geographic data in a variety of standard
 formats.
diff --git a/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt b/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt
index 5746985911e..b6b60d95759 100644
--- a/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ Subclasses of ``UploadedFile`` include:
     A file uploaded into memory (i.e. stream-to-memory). This class is used
     by the :class:`~django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler`.
 
-Built-in upload handers
-=======================
+Built-in upload handlers
+========================
 
 .. module:: django.core.files.uploadhandler
    :synopsis: Django's handlers for file uploads.
diff --git a/docs/topics/db/sql.txt b/docs/topics/db/sql.txt
index a759ff50a7b..269c3d5c7ab 100644
--- a/docs/topics/db/sql.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/db/sql.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ options that make it very powerful.
 
 .. admonition:: Model table names
 
-    Where'd the name of the ``Person`` table come from in that example?
+    Where did the name of the ``Person`` table come from in that example?
 
     By default, Django figures out a database table name by joining the
     model's "app label" -- the name you used in ``manage.py startapp`` -- to