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 > Fork of Cscope version 15.9, with various improvements.
 
 Because cscope is good and shall not be forgotten.
-While the original's mainentence seems abandoned and as far as I can tell you need a PhD in autoconf to compile the latest version,
+While the original's maintenance seems abandoned and as far as I can tell you need a PhD in autoconf to compile the latest version,
 Csope is alive and well.
 
 # Demo
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ Csope is alive and well.
 	  +---------------------Tool Tips--+           +--------------------------------+
 
 # Usacases
-Csope shines at exploring stranger and obsecure code bases due to its TUI.
-It sometimes gets mislabeled as a code navigation tool, but the original documentation describes it best as a "code browsing tool".
+Csope shines at exploring stranger and obscure code bases due to its TUI.
+It sometimes gets mislabelled as a code navigation tool, but the original documentation describes it best as a "code browsing tool".
 Many tools can jump you to a definition or grep for patterns,
-but Csope is unqie in that it allows for those and many other functionalities while providing you with a very comprehansible list of all results,
+but Csope is unique in that it allows for those and many other functionalities while providing you with a very comprehensible list of all results,
 ready to fire up your editor at just the spot.
-An example of its excelence is this project. The Cscope codebase used to be a total mess,
+An example of its excellence is this project. The Cscope code-base used to be a total mess,
 fixing it would have been a lost cause, if not for Cscope itself. Well, Csope now.
 
 # Improvements/Changes
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ fixing it would have been a lost cause, if not for Cscope itself. Well, Csope no
 + Reorganized the control flow
 + Encapsulated changes to the TUI into display.c
 + Encapsulated searching into find.c
-+ Removed "scanner.l" which seems to be an anchient version (and redundant copy) of "fscanner.l" forgotten by all
++ Removed "scanner.l" which seems to be an ancient version (and redundant copy) of "fscanner.l" forgotten by all
 + Removed macro hell put in place to allow compiling on a dead badger
 + Use stdbool instead of YES/NO macros
 + Saved kilobytes by stripping trailing whitespace
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Start browsing your project by running csope over it's source dir.
 
 # Configuration
 ## Readline
-The readline integratoin should be complete -please let us know if not-, except for your prompt being used, which could easily break the TUIs display.
+The readline integration should be complete -please let us know if not-, except for your prompt being used, which could easily break the TUIs display.
 
 The rl_readline_name variable will be set to "Csope", so you may have conditional configurations in your .inputrc with the following format: