diff --git a/README b/README
index a07918ec..0f13a523 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ $ cd partio
 $ scons -j 4
 (dist/ will now have your build)
 
-Geting Started
+Getting Started
 ==============
 
 I support both scons and cmake build files. I would rather not support
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ src/
 Class Model
 -----------
 
-The goal of the library is to abstract the particle itnerface from the data
+The goal of the library is to abstract the particle interface from the data
 representation. That is why Partio represents particles using three classes that
 inherit and provide more functionality
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ ParticlesDataMutable - Read/write access to all particle data
 The functions used to get particle access are these:
 
 readHeaders() 
-   returns ParticlsInfo
+   returns ParticlesInfo
    reads only the minimum data necessary to get number of particles and
    attributes
 
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ VECTOR[3]
 FLOAT[d]
 INT[d]
 
-VECTOR[3] and FLOAT[3] have the same data repesentations.
-VECTOR[4] is invalid howver FLOAT[4] is valid as is FLOAT[1...infinity]
+VECTOR[3] and FLOAT[3] have the same data representations.
+VECTOR[4] is invalid however FLOAT[4] is valid as is FLOAT[1...infinity]
 
 This seems to encompass the most common file formats for particles
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Readers/Writers
 
 New readers and writers can be added in the io/ directory. You simply need to
 implement the interface ParticlesInfo, ParticlesData and ParticlesDataMutable
-(or as many as you need). Editing the io/readers.h to add protoypes and
+(or as many as you need). Editing the io/readers.h to add prototypes and
 io/ParticleIO.cpp to add file extension bindings should be easy.