diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 952aee04a68ad7cc240b8ecb7a8a0e1590b9a33f..446aea2a3cfbd17e6ff8d15fc0b069785d196e7f 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_rb_find);
 
 /*
  * Insert rq into dispatch queue of q.  Queue lock must be held on
- * entry.  rq is sort insted into the dispatch queue. To be used by
+ * entry.  rq is sort instead into the dispatch queue. To be used by
  * specific elevators.
  */
 void elv_dispatch_sort(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c b/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
index 9959b799dbe2f100351be40f5b44e564669e2ffb..c00d4a9b39e5861980d884823e9d46d41c18a61f 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ fw_fill_request(struct fw_packet *packet, int tcode, int tlabel,
  *
  * @param card the card from which to send the request
  * @param tcode the tcode for this transaction.  Do not use
- *   TCODE_LOCK_REQUEST directly, insted use TCODE_LOCK_MASK_SWAP
+ *   TCODE_LOCK_REQUEST directly, instead use TCODE_LOCK_MASK_SWAP
  *   etc. to specify tcode and ext_tcode.
  * @param node_id the destination node ID (bus ID and PHY ID concatenated)
  * @param generation the generation for which node_id is valid
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index ff2c79c8eddc0b3919f8069d430ceb297f09305b..37c11e1943722aeb351683c768b058dfeffae8fa 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
 	  for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
 	  address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
 	  removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
-	- Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
+	- Fix a bug where kfree() was used instead of ntfs_free().
 	- Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
 	  vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
 	- Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.