diff --git a/board/minnowboard/readme.txt b/board/minnowboard/readme.txt
index b62b677df..62ffa92e0 100644
--- a/board/minnowboard/readme.txt
+++ b/board/minnowboard/readme.txt
@@ -36,5 +36,5 @@ Prepare the SD card for the Minnow Board
 
  4. Enjoy
 
-Additional informations about this board can be found at
+Additional information about this board can be found at
 http://www.minnowboard.org/.
diff --git a/package/pkg-autotools.mk b/package/pkg-autotools.mk
index db3736c05..bcc648dd6 100644
--- a/package/pkg-autotools.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-autotools.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this autotools infrastructure requires
-# the .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the
+# the .mk file to only specify metadata information about the
 # package: name, version, download URL, etc.
 #
 # We still allow the package .mk file to override what the different
diff --git a/package/pkg-cmake.mk b/package/pkg-cmake.mk
index adffbecc3..30198a93c 100644
--- a/package/pkg-cmake.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-cmake.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this CMake infrastructure requires
-# the .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the
+# the .mk file to only specify metadata information about the
 # package: name, version, download URL, etc.
 #
 # We still allow the package .mk file to override what the different
diff --git a/package/pkg-generic.mk b/package/pkg-generic.mk
index 03cbf962c..fb4b849f9 100644
--- a/package/pkg-generic.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-generic.mk
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # In terms of implementation, this generic infrastructure requires the
 # .mk file to specify:
 #
-#   1. Metadata informations about the package: name, version,
+#   1. Metadata information about the package: name, version,
 #      download URL, etc.
 #
 #   2. Description of the commands to be executed to configure, build
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ define inner-generic-package
 # already defined. For some variables (version, source, site and
 # subdir), if they are undefined, we try to see if a variable without
 # the HOST_ prefix is defined. If so, we use such a variable, so that
-# these informations have only to be specified once, for both the
+# this information has only to be specified once, for both the
 # target and host packages of a given .mk file.
 
 $(2)_TYPE                       =  $(4)
diff --git a/package/pkg-luarocks.mk b/package/pkg-luarocks.mk
index d9373e13d..be0d4cc07 100644
--- a/package/pkg-luarocks.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-luarocks.mk
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this LuaRocks infrastructure requires
-# the .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the
+# the .mk file to only specify metadata information about the
 # package: name, version, etc.
 #
 ################################################################################
diff --git a/package/pkg-python.mk b/package/pkg-python.mk
index d37a03f69..d49e5c231 100644
--- a/package/pkg-python.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-python.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this Python infrastructure requires the
-# .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the package:
+# .mk file to only specify metadata information about the package:
 # name, version, download URL, etc.
 #
 # We still allow the package .mk file to override what the different
diff --git a/support/scripts/xorg-release b/support/scripts/xorg-release
index a4f090d1d..66fc100b5 100755
--- a/support/scripts/xorg-release
+++ b/support/scripts/xorg-release
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def buildroot_get_version(dirname):
             return m.group(2)
     return None
 
-# Augment the informations of the X.org list of packages (given as
+# Augment the information of the X.org list of packages (given as
 # argument) by details about their packaging in Buildroot. Those
 # details are found by looking at the contents of package/x11r7/.
 def get_buildroot_pkgs(packages):
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def get_buildroot_pkgs(packages):
         version = buildroot_get_version(d)
         if packages.has_key(pkgname):
             # There is a X.org package of the same name, so we just
-            # add informations to the existing dict entry.
+            # add information to the existing dict entry.
             packages[pkgname]['br-version'] = version
             packages[pkgname]['br-name'] = d
         else: