diff --git a/lib/SVN/Notify.pm b/lib/SVN/Notify.pm
index 8930d24..1310fc8 100644
--- a/lib/SVN/Notify.pm
+++ b/lib/SVN/Notify.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package SVN::Notify;
 
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 require 5.006_000;
 use constant WIN32  => $^O eq 'MSWin32';
 use constant PERL58 => $] > 5.007_000;
@@ -1694,7 +1695,7 @@ sub output_file_lists {
 
   $notifier->end_body($file_handle);
 
-Closes out the body of the email by outputting the contents of the C<footer>
+Closes out the body of the email by emitting the contents of the C<footer>
 attribute, if any, and then a couple of newlines. Designed to be called when
 the body of the message is complete, and before any call to
 C<output_attached_diff()>.
diff --git a/lib/SVN/Notify/Alternative.pm b/lib/SVN/Notify/Alternative.pm
index f314063..dd6d5e2 100644
--- a/lib/SVN/Notify/Alternative.pm
+++ b/lib/SVN/Notify/Alternative.pm
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 package SVN::Notify::Alternative;
 
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use SVN::Notify ();
 
-$SVN::Notify::Alternative::VERSION = '1.0';
+$SVN::Notify::Alternative::VERSION = '2.87';
 @SVN::Notify::Alternative::ISA = qw(SVN::Notify);
 
 __PACKAGE__->register_attributes(
diff --git a/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter.pod b/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter.pod
index d13672a..c74b9b3 100644
--- a/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter.pod
+++ b/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter.pod
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ certain messages (not a good idea, but what the hell?):
 
 =item * Uppercase meta data labels
 
-Change the format of the commit meta data section of the message to uppercase
+Change the format of the commit meta data section of the message to upcase
 all of the headers, so that "Revision: 111" becomes "REVISION: 111":
 
 Note that this example also makes use of the C<content_type()> method of
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ Just to demonstrate how to filter file lists:
 This one is a little more complicated because diff filters need to return a
 file handle. SVN::Notify tries to be as efficient with resources as it can, so
 it reads each line of the diff from the file handle one-at-a-time, processing
-and outputting each in turn so as to avoid loading the entire diff into
+and emitting each in turn so as to avoid loading the entire diff into
 memory. To retain this pattern, the best approach is to tie the file handle to
 a class that does the filtering one line at a time. The requisite C<tie> class
 needs only three methods: C<TIEHANDLE> C<READLINE>, and C<CLOSE>. In this
@@ -313,11 +313,11 @@ module to do the same thing:
   }
 
 But do beware of this approach if you're likely to commit changes that would
-generate very larges diffs!
+generate very large diffs!
 
 =item * Filter based on parameter
 
-You can also add attributes (and therefor command-line options) to SVN::Notify
+You can also add attributes (and thus command-line options) to SVN::Notify
 in your filter in order to alter its behavior. This is precisely what the
 included L<SVN::Notify::Filter::Trac|SVN::Notify::Filter::Trac> module does:
 it adds a new attribute, C<trac_url()>, so that it can create the proper Trac
diff --git a/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter/Trac.pm b/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter/Trac.pm
index 51c5fd2..83d00bc 100644
--- a/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter/Trac.pm
+++ b/lib/SVN/Notify/Filter/Trac.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package SVN::Notify::Filter::Trac;
 
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use Text::Trac;
 use SVN::Notify;
 
diff --git a/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML.pm b/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML.pm
index f6a06ef..525a1c3 100644
--- a/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML.pm
+++ b/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package SVN::Notify::HTML;
 
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use HTML::Entities;
 use SVN::Notify ();
 
@@ -468,7 +469,7 @@ sub output_file_lists {
 
   $notifier->end_body($file_handle);
 
-Closes out the body of the email by outputting the closing C<< </body> >> and
+Closes out the body of the email by emitting the closing C<< </body> >> and
 C<< </html> >> tags. Designed to be called when the body of the message is
 complete, and before any call to C<output_attached_diff()>.
 
diff --git a/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML/ColorDiff.pm b/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML/ColorDiff.pm
index 87140d0..a046a19 100644
--- a/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML/ColorDiff.pm
+++ b/lib/SVN/Notify/HTML/ColorDiff.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package SVN::Notify::HTML::ColorDiff;
 
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use HTML::Entities;
 use SVN::Notify::HTML ();
 
diff --git a/t/pod-spelling.t b/t/pod-spelling.t
index 8faadf8..34ce1c0 100644
--- a/t/pod-spelling.t
+++ b/t/pod-spelling.t
@@ -56,3 +56,15 @@ GitHub
 TLS
 auth
 SMTP
+8bit
+Big5
+HTML
+RT
+SourceForge.net
+email
+meta
+rt
+i.e
+Uppercase
+e.g
+uppercase