diff --git a/desktop/test/deployment/locationtest/LocationTest.java b/desktop/test/deployment/locationtest/LocationTest.java
index 482605917e8a..d618b1c4b730 100644
--- a/desktop/test/deployment/locationtest/LocationTest.java
+++ b/desktop/test/deployment/locationtest/LocationTest.java
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public class LocationTest {
             return getServiceNames();
         }
 
-        /** This method is a simple helper function to used in the
+        /** This method is a simple helper function to be used in the
          * static component initialisation functions as well as in
          * getSupportedServiceNames.
          */
diff --git a/drawinglayer/README.md b/drawinglayer/README.md
index 00f95ff9a7e3..b53a9470d02d 100644
--- a/drawinglayer/README.md
+++ b/drawinglayer/README.md
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ For example, in `emfio/qa/cppunit/emf/EmfImportTest.cxx`, one can write:
     Primitive2DSequence aSequence = parseEmf(u"emfio/qa/cppunit/wmf/data/stockobject.emf");
     drawinglayer::Primitive2dXmlDump dumper;
     Primitive2DContainer aContainer(aSequence);
-    dumper.dump(aContainer, "/tmp/drawyinglayer.xml");
+    dumper.dump(aContainer, "/tmp/drawinglayer.xml");
 
-Then, after invoking `make CppunitTest_emfio_emf`, `/tmp/drawyinglayer.xml` will
+Then, after invoking `make CppunitTest_emfio_emf`, `/tmp/drawinglayer.xml` will
 be the dump of the drawinglayer primitives used to draw the emf file in
 LibreOffice. The top level tag will be <primitive2D>.
diff --git a/drawinglayer/inc/primitive2d/texteffectprimitive2d.hxx b/drawinglayer/inc/primitive2d/texteffectprimitive2d.hxx
index b895cde7179b..8e822d39c9c6 100644
--- a/drawinglayer/inc/primitive2d/texteffectprimitive2d.hxx
+++ b/drawinglayer/inc/primitive2d/texteffectprimitive2d.hxx
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ private:
     TextEffectStyle2D meTextEffectStyle2D;
 
     /** the last used object to view transformation used from getDecomposition
-        for decide buffering
+        to decide buffering
      */
     basegfx::B2DHomMatrix maLastObjectToViewTransformation;