ENH: Spelling fixes

8 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/lib/_datasource.py b/numpy/lib/_datasource.py
index c528de608..3affc5195 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/_datasource.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/_datasource.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ _open = open
 
 
 # Using a class instead of a module-level dictionary
-# to reduce the inital 'import numpy' overhead by
+# to reduce the initial 'import numpy' overhead by
 # deferring the import of bz2 and gzip until needed
 
 # TODO: .zip support, .tar support?
diff --git a/numpy/lib/function_base.py b/numpy/lib/function_base.py
index 3c39d1a7b..8ee6a54dd 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/function_base.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/function_base.py
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ def gradient(f, *varargs, **kwargs):
 
     Notes
     -----
-    Assuming that :math:`f\\in C^{3}` (i.e., :math:`f` has at least 3 continous
+    Assuming that :math:`f\\in C^{3}` (i.e., :math:`f` has at least 3 continuous
     derivatives) and let be :math:`h_{*}` a non homogeneous stepsize, the
     spacing the finite difference coefficients are computed by minimising
     the consistency error :math:`\\eta_{i}`:
diff --git a/numpy/lib/index_tricks.py b/numpy/lib/index_tricks.py
index dc8eb1c4a..003774ce2 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/index_tricks.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/index_tricks.py
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class AxisConcatenator(object):
         if not isinstance(key, tuple):
             key = (key,)
 
-        # copy attributes, since they can be overriden in the first argument
+        # copy attributes, since they can be overridden in the first argument
         trans1d = self.trans1d
         ndmin = self.ndmin
         matrix = self.matrix
diff --git a/numpy/lib/info.py b/numpy/lib/info.py
index e00406407..8815a52f0 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/info.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/info.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ roots            Find roots of polynomial given coefficients
 polyint          Integrate polynomial
 polyder          Differentiate polynomial
 polyadd          Add polynomials
-polysub          Substract polynomials
+polysub          Subtract polynomials
 polymul          Multiply polynomials
 polydiv          Divide polynomials
 polyval          Evaluate polynomial at given argument
diff --git a/numpy/lib/shape_base.py b/numpy/lib/shape_base.py
index 588047952..830943e72 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/shape_base.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/shape_base.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def apply_over_axes(func, a, axes):
     Notes
     ------
     This function is equivalent to tuple axis arguments to reorderable ufuncs
-    with keepdims=True. Tuple axis arguments to ufuncs have been availabe since
+    with keepdims=True. Tuple axis arguments to ufuncs have been available since
     version 1.7.0.
 
     Examples
diff --git a/numpy/lib/tests/test_function_base.py b/numpy/lib/tests/test_function_base.py
index 7c07606f6..4f21e261f 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/tests/test_function_base.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/tests/test_function_base.py
@@ -2787,7 +2787,7 @@ class TestPercentile(TestCase):
                                    interpolation="higher").shape, (3, 3, 5, 6))
 
     def test_scalar_q(self):
-        # test for no empty dimensions for compatiblity with old percentile
+        # test for no empty dimensions for compatibility with old percentile
         x = np.arange(12).reshape(3, 4)
         assert_equal(np.percentile(x, 50), 5.5)
         self.assertTrue(np.isscalar(np.percentile(x, 50)))
@@ -2808,7 +2808,7 @@ class TestPercentile(TestCase):
         assert_equal(np.percentile(x, 50, axis=1, out=out), r1)
         assert_equal(out, r1)
 
-        # test for no empty dimensions for compatiblity with old percentile
+        # test for no empty dimensions for compatibility with old percentile
         x = np.arange(12).reshape(3, 4)
         assert_equal(np.percentile(x, 50, interpolation='lower'), 5.)
         self.assertTrue(np.isscalar(np.percentile(x, 50)))
diff --git a/numpy/lib/tests/test_stride_tricks.py b/numpy/lib/tests/test_stride_tricks.py
index 39a76c2f6..7dc3c4d24 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/tests/test_stride_tricks.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/tests/test_stride_tricks.py
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ def test_writeable():
     _, result = broadcast_arrays(0, original)
     assert_equal(result.flags.writeable, False)
 
-    # regresssion test for GH6491
+    # regression test for GH6491
     shape = (2,)
     strides = [0]
     tricky_array = as_strided(np.array(0), shape, strides)
diff --git a/numpy/lib/utils.py b/numpy/lib/utils.py
index 61aa5e33b..fad159c7e 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/utils.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/utils.py
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ def who(vardict=None):
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-# NOTE:  pydoc defines a help function which works simliarly to this
+# NOTE:  pydoc defines a help function which works similarly to this
 #  except it uses a pager to take over the screen.
 
 # combine name and arguments and split to multiple lines of width