diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
index f975f8577..f7dd200aa 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ADDITIONAL INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES WITH VERSION 2.0:
 - The Nestable interface defines the method indexOfThrowable(Class).
 Previously the implementations checked only for a specific Class.
 Now they check for subclasses of that Class as well.
-For most situations this will be the expected behaviour (ie. its a bug fix).
+For most situations this will be the expected behaviour (ie. it is a bug fix).
 If it causes problems, please use the ExceptionUtils.indexOfThrowable(Class) method instead.
 Note that the ExceptionUtils method is available in v1.0 and v2.0 of commons-lang and has not been changed.
 (An alternative to this is to change the public static matchSubclasses flag on NestableDelegate.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ DEPRECATIONS FROM 2.1 to 2.2:
 
 DEPRECATIONS FROM 2.0 to 2.1:
 
-- The enum package has been renamed to enums for JDK1.5 compilance.
+- The enum package has been renamed to enums for JDK1.5 compliance.
 All functionality is identical, just the package has changed.
 This package will be removed in v3.0.
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ BUG FIXES IN 2.4:
     * [LANG-353] - Javadoc Example for EqualsBuilder is questionable
     * [LANG-360] - Why does appendIdentityToString return null?
     * [LANG-361] - BooleanUtils toBooleanObject javadoc does not match implementation
-    * [LANG-363] - StringEscapeUtils..escapeJavaScript() method did not escape '/' into '\/', it will make IE render page uncorrectly
+    * [LANG-363] - StringEscapeUtils..escapeJavaScript() method did not escape '/' into '\/', it will make IE render page incorrectly
     * [LANG-364] - Documentation bug for ignoreEmptyTokens accessors in StrTokenizer
     * [LANG-365] - BooleanUtils.toBoolean() - invalid drop-thru in case statement causes StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
     * [LANG-367] - FastDateFormat thread safety