diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 89bc7a70..c2860bf3 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ v0.5.0 (2018-06-08)
   html nodes.
 * ``base_url`` substitutes ``url`` in ``MicroformatExtractor``, ``JsonLdExtractor``,
   ``OpenGraphExtractor``, ``RDFaExtractor``  and ``MicrodataExtractor``
-* individual extractors accpet ``base_url`` instead of ``url``, unused keyword 
+* individual extractors accept ``base_url`` instead of ``url``, unused keyword
   arguments are removed.
 * In ``w3microdata.extract_items`` ``items_seen`` and ``url`` are no longer 
   class variables but are passed as arguments.
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ v0.2.0 (2016-09-26)
 -------------------
 
 * Web service response content-type set to 'application/json'
-* Web service Python 3 compatiblity
+* Web service Python 3 compatibility
 * Code coverage reports
 * Fix extraction of ``<object>`` "data" URL with microdata
 * Handle textContent mixed with ``<script>`` and ``<style>`` tags
diff --git a/extruct/rdfa.py b/extruct/rdfa.py
index b7e51ab7..1cd1d133 100644
--- a/extruct/rdfa.py
+++ b/extruct/rdfa.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def _replaceNS(self, prop, html_element, head_element):
         if ('xmlns:' + prefix) in html_element.keys():
             return html_element.get('xmlns:' + prefix) + prop.split(':')[1]
 
-        # if namespace present in inital context
+        # if namespace present in initial context
         if prefix in context:
             return context[prefix] + prop.split(':')[1]
 
diff --git a/extruct/w3cmicrodata.py b/extruct/w3cmicrodata.py
index cb8c9fa7..223ad746 100644
--- a/extruct/w3cmicrodata.py
+++ b/extruct/w3cmicrodata.py
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ def _extract_property_refs(self, node, refid, items_seen, base_url):
                              base_url=base_url)
         if 'itemprop' in ref_node.keys() and 'itemscope' in ref_node.keys():
             # An full item will be extracted from the node, no need to look
-            # for individual properties in childs
+            # for individual properties in child nodes
             for p, v in extract_fn(ref_node):
                 yield p, v
         else: