diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4b35e6a..2250283 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "env_home"
-description = "A simple library to get the user's home directory in a cross-platform way."
+description = "Get the user home directory in a cross-platform way."
 authors = ["Peter Tripp <peter.tripp@gmail.com>"]
 homepage = "https://github.com/notpeter/env-home"
 repository = "https://github.com/notpeter/env-home"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42c4141..a4ed953 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 # env_home rust crate
 
 A pure-Rust crate for determining user home directories via environment variables
-in a platform independent manor with no external dependencies.
+in a platform independent manner with no external dependencies.
 
-Checks `HOME` on Unix and `USERPROFILE` on Windows.
+Check `HOME` on Unix and `USERPROFILE` on Windows.
 
 ## Description
 
 env_home is a general purpose crate for determining the current user
-home directory via enviornment variables.
+home directory via environment variables.
 
 It can be used as drop-in replacement for
 [`std::env::home_dir` (deprecated)](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/fn.home_dir.html)
 from the rust standard library.
 
-Unlike `std::env::home_dir` this crate **only** looks at enviornment variables
+Unlike `std::env::home_dir` this crate **only** looks at environment variables
 and does attempt to fallback on platform specific APIs. As a result implementation
 of `env_home_dir` is [very simple](src/lib.rs) with no dependencies on other crates.
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ or Python's [Path.home()](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib
 
 The API of this crate is a single function `env_home_dir`
 which attempts to fetch a user's home directory from environment variables
-in a platform independant way supporting Windows and Unix (Linux/MacOS/BSD/WSL, etc).
+in a platform independent way supporting Windows and Unix (Linux/MacOS/BSD/WSL, etc).
 
 | Platform                          | Environment Variable | Example           |
 | --------------------------------- | -------------------- | ----------------- |
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index fe74d27..03e7423 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright 2024 Peter Tripp
 //! env_home is a general purpose crate for determining the current user
-//! home directory in a platform independant manor via enviornment variables.
+//! home directory in a platform independant manner via enviornment variables.
 //!
 //! This crate is implemented in pure-rust and has no external dependencies.
 //!