diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 7614c83..2528f44 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ factory.
 
 The node is the unit of communication. Actor is built on top of Node to provide
 a distributed communication interface. When an actor joins the network it
-announces itself to a announce service. The announce is stored in the remote
-service and broadcast to all other nodes by a pub/sub queue.
+announces itself to an announce service. The announce is stored in the remote
+service and broadcasted to all other nodes by a pub/sub queue.
 
 Currently it supports Zeromq as the underlying protocol and JSON-RPC to encode
 and decode messages.
diff --git a/synapse/node.py b/synapse/node.py
index 15cac4e..7012fb6 100644
--- a/synapse/node.py
+++ b/synapse/node.py
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@
                                     ^
                        activates and calls its handler
 
-.. note:: every function that may block MUST be protected by a event or another
-   data structure that will be wake up either directly by the poller or
-   indirectly by a chain of events. The poller is always the source that wakes
+.. note:: every function that may block MUST be protected by an event or another
+   data structure that will be awoken either directly by the poller or
+   indirectly by a chain of events. The poller is always the source that wakes up
    the first event in the chain.
 
 """
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ def unregister(self, node):
 
 
     def poll(self):
-        """Warning blocks until a event happens on a monitored socket. Can
+        """Warning blocks until an event happens on a monitored socket. Can
         handle several events in a loop.
 
         """
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ def unregister(self, node):
 
     def poll(self):
         """
-        Blocks until a event happens on a socket. Then gets all the events and
+        Blocks until an event happens on a socket. Then gets all the events and
         wakes all the corresponding nodes. Finally sleeps to let node greenlets
         run. If the poller has a *timeout* set, interrupt the polling after
         *timeout* seconds. When not specified, time values are represented in
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ def recv(self):
         Return a message as a string from the receiving queue.
 
         Blocks on the underlying ``self._socket.recv()``, that's why it waits
-        on a event that will be woke up by the poller.
+        on an event that will be waked up by the poller.
 
         """
         self._log.debug('waiting in recv()')