diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7c825e9..d991645 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+	fix punctuation and typo
+
 4.4:
 	Also log when called from stunnel
 
@@ -155,7 +157,7 @@
 	Olaf: I changed my initial CGI-interface to NOT use the filesystem but
 		two pipes.
 	Add whole-host redirect (see README)
-	Olaf: added direcory-lists and "index.cgi" support (normal CGI only !
+	Olaf: added directory-lists and "index.cgi" support (normal CGI only !
 		"nph-index.cgi" is not supported). Fixed some problematic parts in the
 		CGI-interface (\n -> \r\n converter for http-header and CGI crash
 		handling)
diff --git a/HTTPS.md b/HTTPS.md
index 7091cda..8c5cc82 100644
--- a/HTTPS.md
+++ b/HTTPS.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SSL with eris
 =============
 
 Eris does not care what transport is in use: that job is left to the invoking
-program (eg. tcpserver).
+program (e.g. tcpserver).
 
 In the past you could use `sslio` with `tcpsvd`,
 but `sslio` has not been updated in a long time,
diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README
index bdcc8a1..cc19e47 100644
--- a/contrib/README
+++ b/contrib/README
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ a little easier.
 Quite a lot of web software these days is written to work with
 Apache and nothing else.  PHP is a notable example: even PHP-CGI,
 as shipped on Debian, requires special environment variables that
-only Apache sets, and doesn't work with eg. mathopd, boa, busybox
+only Apache sets, and doesn't work with, e.g. mathopd, boa, busybox
 httpd, or eris.