diff --git a/doc/allocator_access.qbk b/doc/allocator_access.qbk
index 1a0c82f..afde7d3 100644
--- a/doc/allocator_access.qbk
+++ b/doc/allocator_access.qbk
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ returns `a`.]]]
 
 [endsect]
 
-[section Acknowledgments]
+[section Acknowledgements]
 
 Glen Fernandes implemented the allocator access utilities.
 
diff --git a/doc/demangle.qbk b/doc/demangle.qbk
index 16bd65e..cd0febc 100644
--- a/doc/demangle.qbk
+++ b/doc/demangle.qbk
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ return `nullptr` if demangling failed.
 
 [endsect]
 
-[section Acknowledgments]
+[section Acknowledgements]
 
 The implementation of `core::demangle` was taken from
 `boost/exception/detail/type_info.hpp`, which in turn was adapted
diff --git a/doc/enable_if.qbk b/doc/enable_if.qbk
index a64a2b1..6562d0b 100644
--- a/doc/enable_if.qbk
+++ b/doc/enable_if.qbk
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ depends on the template arguments of the class. Note that
 again, the second argument to `enable_if` is not needed; the
 default (`void`) is the correct value.
 
-The `enable_if_has_type` template is usable this scenario but instead of
-using a type traits to enable or disable a specialization, it use a
+The `enable_if_has_type` template is usable in this scenario but instead of
+using a type trait to enable or disable a specialization, it uses a
 SFINAE context to check for the existence of a dependent type inside
 its parameter. For example, the following structure extracts a dependent
 `value_type` from T if and only if `T::value_type` exists.
diff --git a/doc/ignore_unused.qbk b/doc/ignore_unused.qbk
index e3bdc4c..bd018e8 100644
--- a/doc/ignore_unused.qbk
+++ b/doc/ignore_unused.qbk
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ int fun( int foo, int bar )
 
 [endsect]
 
-[section Acknowledgments]
+[section Acknowledgements]
 
 `boost::ignore_unused()` was contributed by Adam Wulkiewicz.
 
diff --git a/doc/pointer_traits.qbk b/doc/pointer_traits.qbk
index 8b052c0..fb846b8 100644
--- a/doc/pointer_traits.qbk
+++ b/doc/pointer_traits.qbk
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ also not defined (`pointer_traits` is SFINAE-friendly).
 [[`static pointer pointer_traits::pointer_to(element_type& v);`]
 [[variablelist
 [[Remark]
-[If `element_type` is a void type, or if `T::pointer_to(v)` is not well formed,
+[If `element_type` is a void type, or if `T::pointer_to(v)` is not well-formed,
   this member is not defined.]]
 [[Returns]
 [A pointer to `v` obtained by calling `T::pointer_to(v)`.]]]]]
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ also not defined (`pointer_traits` is SFINAE-friendly).
 
 [endsect]
 
-[section Acknowledgments]
+[section Acknowledgements]
 
 Glen Fernandes implemented `pointer_traits` and `to_address` with reviews and
 guidance from Peter Dimov.
diff --git a/doc/ref.qbk b/doc/ref.qbk
index 454851b..3614497 100644
--- a/doc/ref.qbk
+++ b/doc/ref.qbk
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The type-expression `boost::unwrap_reference<T>::type` is
 
 [xinclude ref_reference.xml]
 
-[section Acknowledgments]
+[section Acknowledgements]
 
 `ref` and `cref` were originally part of the Tuple library by
 Jaakko J\u00E4rvi. They were "promoted to `boost::` status" by
diff --git a/doc/scoped_enum.qbk b/doc/scoped_enum.qbk
index a9e95f4..4c06f97 100644
--- a/doc/scoped_enum.qbk
+++ b/doc/scoped_enum.qbk
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ The user can portably declare such enumeration as follows:
     }
     BOOST_SCOPED_ENUM_DECLARE_END(future_errc)
 
-These macros allows to use `future_errc` in almost all the cases as an scoped enum.
+These macros allow using `future_errc` in almost all the cases as a scoped enum.
 
     future_errc ev = future_errc::no_state;
 
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ such cases.
 
 [endsect]
 
-[section Acknowledgments]
+[section Acknowledgements]
 
 This scoped enum emulation was developed by Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escriba and Anthony Williams.
 
diff --git a/doc/use_default.qbk b/doc/use_default.qbk
index 2149161..63328ef 100644
--- a/doc/use_default.qbk
+++ b/doc/use_default.qbk
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
 [section Overview]
 
 The header <boost/core/use_default.hpp> provides the type `boost::use_default`
-which is used by other Boost libraries as a sentinel type in a templates to
+which is used by other Boost libraries as a sentinel type in templates to
 indicate defaults.
 
 [endsect]