diff --git a/mountinfo/doc.go b/mountinfo/doc.go
index 21aa8dd5..ffac661f 100644
--- a/mountinfo/doc.go
+++ b/mountinfo/doc.go
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // Package mountinfo provides a set of functions to retrieve information about OS mounts.
+//
 // Currently it supports Linux. For historical reasons, there is also some support for FreeBSD,
 // and a shallow implementation for Windows, but in general this is Linux-only package, so
 // the rest of the document only applies to Linux, unless explicitly specified otherwise.
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@
 // see different mounts. A per-process mountinfo table is available from /proc/<PID>/mountinfo,
 // where <PID> is a numerical process identifier.
 //
-// In general, /proc is not a very effective interface, and mountinfo is not an exception.
+// In general, /proc is not a very efficient interface, and mountinfo is not an exception.
 // For example, there is no way to get information about a specific mount point (i.e. it
 // is all-or-nothing). This package tries to hide the /proc ineffectiveness by using
 // parse filters while reading mountinfo. A filter can skip some entries, or stop
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
 // of the cases where mountinfo should not be parsed:
 //
 // 1. Before performing a mount. Usually, this is not needed, but if required (say to
-//    prevent overmounts), to check whether a directory is mounted, call os.Lstat
+//    prevent over-mounts), to check whether a directory is mounted, call os.Lstat
 //    on it and its parent directory, and compare their st.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t).Dev
 //    fields -- if they differ, then the directory is the mount point. NOTE this does
 //    not work for bind mounts. Optionally, the filesystem type can also be checked
@@ -43,5 +44,4 @@
 //
 // 5. To find the mount point root of a specific directory. You can perform os.Stat()
 //    on the directory and traverse up until the Dev field of a parent directory differs.
-
 package mountinfo
diff --git a/mountinfo/mountinfo_filters.go b/mountinfo/mountinfo_filters.go
index 8aebe1ad..5ced02b5 100644
--- a/mountinfo/mountinfo_filters.go
+++ b/mountinfo/mountinfo_filters.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ func FstypeFilter(fstype ...string) FilterFunc {
 	return func(m *Info) (bool, bool) {
 		for _, t := range fstype {
 			if m.Fstype == t {
-				return false, false // don't skeep, keep going
+				return false, false // don't skip, keep going
 			}
 		}
 		return true, false // skip, keep going
diff --git a/mountinfo/mountinfo_linux.go b/mountinfo/mountinfo_linux.go
index cdfd37da..a78799cd 100644
--- a/mountinfo/mountinfo_linux.go
+++ b/mountinfo/mountinfo_linux.go
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ func parseInfoFile(r io.Reader, filter FilterFunc) ([]*Info, error) {
 		}
 		p.VfsOpts = fields[sepIdx+3]
 
-		// Run a filter soon so we can skip parsing/adding entries
+		// Run a filter early so we can skip parsing/adding entries
 		// the caller is not interested in
 		var skip, stop bool
 		if filter != nil {
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func unescape(path string) (string, error) {
 	}
 
 	// The following code is UTF-8 transparent as it only looks for some
-	// specific characters (backslach and 0..7) with values < utf8.RuneSelf,
+	// specific characters (backslash and 0..7) with values < utf8.RuneSelf,
 	// and everything else is passed through as is.
 	buf := make([]byte, len(path))
 	bufLen := 0