diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/geom-class/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/geom-class/article.sgml
index 7ffc67caf5..ee49087d27 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/geom-class/article.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/geom-class/article.sgml
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@
 	  library (usually in
 	  <filename>/lib/geom</filename>).</para></listitem>
 
-	<listitem><para>it &man.dlopen.3;-es the library, extracts the
+	<listitem><para>it &man.dlopen.3;-s the library, extracts the
 	  definitions of command-line parameters and helper
 	  functions.</para></listitem>
 
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
 	quite a bit, but forces the handling to be fast.</para>
 
       <para>Of these, the most important function for doing actual
-	usefull work is the <function>.start</function>() function,
+	useful work is the <function>.start</function>() function,
 	which is called when a BIO requests arrives for a provider
 	managed by a instance of geom class.</para>
     </sect2>
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@
 
       <para>This restriction is here to stop geom code clogging the I/O
 	request path, because sleeping in the code is usually not
-	time-bound and there can be no guarantiees on how long will it
+	time-bound and there can be no guarantees on how long will it
 	take (there are some other, more technical reasons also). It
 	also means that there is not much that can be done in those
 	threads; for example, almost any complex thing requires memory