diff --git a/chapter07/console.xml b/chapter07/console.xml
index 4c91b9f8b..d67cc868d 100644
--- a/chapter07/console.xml
+++ b/chapter07/console.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ different from ones in the default keymap built into the kernel. This
confuses some applications. For example,
Emacs displays its help (instead of erasing
the character before the cursor) when Backspace is pressed. To check
-if the keymap in use is effected (this works only for i386
+if the keymap in use is affected (this works only for i386
keymaps):
zgrep '\W14\W' [/path/to/your/keymap]
diff --git a/chapter07/udev.xml b/chapter07/udev.xml
index a89486d22..aef508e2d 100644
--- a/chapter07/udev.xml
+++ b/chapter07/udev.xml
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class="directory">/dev entry for it.
udev, and likewise with devfs before it. It is commonly
referred to as the chicken and egg
problem. Most Linux
-distrubtions handle loading modules via entries in
+distributions handle loading modules via entries in
/etc/modules.conf. Access to a device node causes
the appropriate kernel module to load. With udev,
this method will not work because the device node does not exist until
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 27edf9741..16ca4e713 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-
-
+
+