--- a/doc/ChangeLog	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-01-19  Rik  <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
+
+	* interpreter/doccheck/aspell-octave.en.pws: Add new words to Octave
+	private dictionary.
+
 2011-01-19  Rik  <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
 
 	* doc/interpreter/diagperm.txi, doc/interpreter/dynamic.txi,

--- a/doc/interpreter/doccheck/aspell-octave.en.pws	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/doc/interpreter/doccheck/aspell-octave.en.pws	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -1,337 +1,71 @@
 personal_ws-1.1 en 1
+Abramowitz
+accumarray
+acknowledgements
+Acknowledgements
 ACM
-AIX
-ANOVA
-API
-ARMA
-AWK
-Abramowitz
-Acknowledgements
+adams
 Affero
 Ahalt
+aifm
+AIX
+al
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+anova
+ANOVA
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+Biomathematics
 bitmax
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+Blackman
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@@ -339,34 +73,49 @@
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+Cholesky
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@@ -374,6 +123,8 @@
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@@ -383,14 +134,26 @@
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@@ -403,126 +166,227 @@
 deconv
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+EIDORS
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+Ekerdt
+Elfers
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+Endian
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+Engle's
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+EOF
+EOS
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+headerlines
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+Hermitian
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+HH
+Higham
+Hindmarsh
+Hindmarsh's
+Hodel
 holomorphic
+Horner's
 horzcat
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+Hotelling's
+HSV
+Hudak
+Huhdanpaa
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 hygeinv
 hygepdf
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+Hyndman
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+Hypergeometric
+IEEE
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+IIP
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+Imenu
+Indices
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+Inline
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 interpderiv
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+Interpolants
+interquartile
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@@ -533,28 +397,49 @@
 isvector
 ith
 iy
+Jacobian
+Jacobians
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+jp
+jpeg
+JPEG
+jpg
+jpx
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+Kolmogorov
 kolmogorov
+Konrod
+Krishnamurthy
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+Kruskal
+Krylov
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+LabelSpacing
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+Larimore
+LaserJet
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+Leftarrow
+Leftrightarrow
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+Lehoucq
 leq
+Levinson
 lfloor
 li
 libcruft
 libcurl
+liblapack
 liboctave
 licensors
 lineanchors
@@ -563,8 +448,11 @@
 linespoints
 linkprop
 literalspacing
+Liu
 lm
+LM
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+Lobatto
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 logncdf
 logninv
@@ -572,49 +460,82 @@
 lognpdf
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+Lookup
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+Los
+Lovato
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+Lua
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+Magnus
+Mahalanobis
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+Mandriva
+MANOVA
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+Marsaglia
+Maschhoff
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 matlab
+Matsumoto
 maxima
+MaxIntervalCount
 mcnemar
+McNemar's
+meansq
+Mendelsohn
+Mersenne
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 meshgridded
+Metafile
+metafile
 metafiles
+Metafont
 mex
+Michelsen
+Microsystems
 minima
+Minitab
 minval
+MIP
+miscompiled
+Misra
 mkoctfile
 mldivide
 mmd
+MMM
 mmm
 mmmm
 mmmyy
 mmmyyyy
 modelled
+Moler
+Montanet
 mpoles
 mpower
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+Multi
 multi
 multibyte
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 mxArray
+MxN
+MxNx
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 nabla
+NaN
+NaNs
 nargin
 nbincdf
 nbininv
@@ -624,39 +545,77 @@
 ndgrid
 ne
 neq
+Neudecker
+Neumann
+NeXT
 nfev
+nfft
+Ng
 ni
+Nishimura
+NLP
 nnls
 nnz
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+nolabel
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+noperm
 normcdf
 normest
 norminv
 normpdf
 normrnd
+NorthOutside
+noscal
 notin
+NTSC
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+Nx
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+ODEPACK
+OLS
+onesided
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+OpenGL
 oplus
+Oppenheim
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 otimes
+OutputFcn
 outputfcn
+paperorientation
 paperposition
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 parseparams
+pbm
+PBM
+PBMplus
 pcg
+PCG
 pchip
 pcr
+pcre
+PCX
+pcx
+PDF
 pdf
 periodogram
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+Petzold's
+PGF
+pgm
+PHP
+pict
 pinv
+Pixmap
+png
+PNG
+pnm
+PointJet
 poisscdf
 poissinv
 poisspdf
@@ -664,10 +623,14 @@
 polyderiv
 polyfit
 polyval
+POSIX
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+PostScript
+Pothen
 pre
 preconditioner
 premultiplied
+Prepend
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 presolver
 printf
@@ -678,44 +641,84 @@
 pseudoinverse
 pseudonorm
 pseudorandom
+Pseudospectra
 ptrace
+PWS
+Pxx
+Qci
+Qhull
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+QP
+QQ
+QRUPDATE
+quadpack
+Quantile
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+Quickhull
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+QZ
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+Rajamanickam
 randn
 randperm
 rangle
+ranlib
+ras
+Rawlings
 rceil
 rdivide
+Readline
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+regex
 regressor
+reimported
+Reindent
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 ren
 repmat
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+Resize
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 resnorm
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+RET
 rfloor
+RGB
+Riccati
+Rightarrow
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 rline
+RMS
 rnd
+Rosser
+Rossum
+rpath
+RPMs
 rr
+sa
+Saad
+Sandia
+SAS
 sB
-sa
+Schafer
+Schur
+SCO
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 se
 seealso
 semidefinite
+Sep
+Shampine
 shiftdim
 si
 signum
+SIGNUM
 sim
+SIMAX
 simplechol
 simplecholperm
 simplematrix
@@ -723,14 +726,19 @@
 sinetone
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 smirnov
+Smirnov
+Sorensen
+SouthOutside
 sp
 spadesuit
 spalloc
+SPARSKIT
 spaugment
 spchol
 spcholperm
 spconvert
 spdiags
+Spearman's
 speye
 spfun
 spmatrix
@@ -740,14 +748,23 @@
 sprandn
 sprandsym
 sprank
+SPSS
 spstats
 sqrt
 sqrtm
 sr
 ss
+Stadlober
 stairstep
+Stallman
+Startup
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+stdnormal
+Stegun
+Stepleman
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+STFT
+STL
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 strcmp
 stringanchors
@@ -760,38 +777,63 @@
 subdirectory
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+Subfunction
+Subfunctions
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 subinterval
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+Sublicensing
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 submatrix
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+Subprocesses
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+Subscripted
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+SuiteSparse
+SunOS
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+SV
+SVD
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+SVG
+svg
+SwitzerlandLight
+Sym
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+SYMAMD
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 symbfact
 symrcm
 tcdf
+Tcv
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+Texinfo
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 ths
+tif
+Tikhonov
+TikZ
 tinv
+Tisseur
+Tisseur's
+Toeplitz
 tokenExtents
+TolF
+TolFun
+TolX
 tp
 tpdf
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@@ -800,16 +842,24 @@
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+Tsang
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+twosided
+Tx
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+UB
+UID
 uint
+Ultrix
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+Unary
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+Uncomments
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 unidinv
@@ -817,9 +867,11 @@
 unidrnd
 unifcdf
 unifinv
+UniformOutput
 unifpdf
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+Uninstall
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 unnormalized
@@ -827,9 +879,13 @@
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+untabified
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+Uparrow
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+Username
+Vandermonde
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 varpi
@@ -837,49 +893,73 @@
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+Vectorize
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 vee
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 vertcat
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+Villadsen
 voronoi
+Voronoi
+Wa
 wallis
 wblcdf
 wblinv
 wblpdf
 wblrnd
+Weibull
 welch
+Welch
+WestOutside
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+Whitespace
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 wienrnd
+Wikipedia
+Wilcoxon
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+Wildcards
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+Wilks
+WinRand
+WIPO
+Wl
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+xb
+xcorr
+xerrorbar
+xerrorbars
+XFig
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 xGELSD
 xGETRF
 xGTSV
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+xmin
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-xb
-xerrorbar
-xerrorbars
-xl
-xmin
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+xwd
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+xyz
+ydata
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 yerrorbars
+YY
 yy
+YYYY
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 yyyymmdd
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+Zechner
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+Ziggurat
 zlib

--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2011-01-19  Rik  <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
+
+
+	* general/curl.m, general/divergence.m, io/strread.m,
+	miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m, plot/bar.m, plot/errorbar.m, plot/hist.m,
+	plot/mesh.m, plot/surf.m, polynomial/polyaffine.m: Correct spelling
+	in docstrings.
+
 2011-01-19  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* help/help.m: New option --list.  Bug #31905.

--- a/scripts/general/curl.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/general/curl.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 ## for two-dimensional input.  For three-dimensional input the scalar
 ## rotation is calculated at each grid point in direction of the vector field
 ## at that point.
-## @seealso{divergence, gradient, del2}
+## @seealso{divergence, gradient, del2, cross, dot}
 ## @end deftypefn
 
 ## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
@@ -154,4 +154,4 @@
 %! [cz,av] = curl(X/2,Y/2,2*(X-Y),Y);
 %! assert(all(cz(:)==4));
 %! assert(all(av(:)==2));
-%! assert(size_equal(X,Y,cz,av));
\ No newline at end of file
+%! assert(size_equal(X,Y,cz,av));

--- a/scripts/general/divergence.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/general/divergence.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{div} =} divergence (@var{fx}, @var{fy}, @var{fz})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{div} =} divergence (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{fx}, @var{fy})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{div} =} divergence (@var{fx}, @var{fy})
-## Calculate divegence of vector field given by the arrays @var{fx},
+## Calculate divergence of a vector field given by the arrays @var{fx},
 ## @var{fy}, and @var{fz} or @var{fx}, @var{fy} respectively. 
 ## @tex
 ## $$
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 ## The coordinates of the vector field can be given by the arguments @var{x},
 ## @var{y}, @var{z} or @var{x}, @var{y} respectively. 
 ##
-## @seealso{curl, gradient, del2}
+## @seealso{curl, gradient, del2, cross, dot}
 ## @end deftypefn
 
 ## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>

--- a/scripts/io/strread.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/io/strread.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 ## [@var{a}, @var{b}, @var{c}] = strread (@var{str}, "%s %s %f");
 ## @end example
 ##
-## The behaviour of @code{strread} can be changed via property-value
+## The behavior of @code{strread} can be changed via property-value
 ## pairs.  The following properties are recognized:
 ##
 ## @table @code

--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 ## Generate dependency files (.d) for C and C++ source files.
 ##
 ## @item -R DIR
-## Add the runtime path to the link command.
+## Add the run-time path to the link command.
 ##
 ## @item -Wl,@dots{}
 ## Pass flags though the linker like "-Wl,-rpath=@dots{}".

--- a/scripts/plot/bar.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/plot/bar.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 ##
 ## The optional input handle @var{h} allows an axis handle to be passed.
 ##
-## The bargraph's appearance may be modified by specifying property/value
+## The bar graph's appearance may be modified by specifying property/value
 ## pairs.  The following example modifies the face and edge colors.
 ##
 ## @example

--- a/scripts/plot/errorbar.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/plot/errorbar.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 ##
 ## If the @var{fmt} argument is supplied, it is interpreted as in
 ## normal plots.  In addition, @var{fmt} may include an errorbar style
-## which must preceed the line and marker format.  The following plot
+## which must precede the line and marker format.  The following plot
 ## styles are supported by errorbar:
 ##
 ## @table @samp

--- a/scripts/plot/hist.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/plot/hist.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@
 ## the bins, with the width of the bins determined from the adjacent 
 ## values in the vector.
 ##
-## If scaler, the second argument, @var{nbins}, defines the number of bins.
+## If scalar, the second argument, @var{nbins}, defines the number of bins.
 ##
-## If third argument is provided, the histogram is normalized such that
+## If a third argument is provided, the histogram is normalized such that
 ## the sum of the bars is equal to @var{norm}.
 ##
 ## Extreme values are lumped in the first and last bins.

--- a/scripts/plot/mesh.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/plot/mesh.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 ## correspond to different @var{x} values and rows of @var{z} correspond
 ## to different @var{y} values.
 ##
-## The color of the mesh is derirved from the @code{colormap}
+## The color of the mesh is derived from the @code{colormap}
 ## and the value of @var{z}.  Optionally the color of the mesh can be
 ## specified independent of @var{z}, by adding a fourth matrix, @var{c}.
 ## @seealso{colormap, contour, meshgrid, surf}

--- a/scripts/plot/surf.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/plot/surf.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 ## correspond to different @var{x} values and rows of @var{z} correspond
 ## to different @var{y} values.
 ##
-## The color of the surface is derirved from the @code{colormap} and
+## The color of the surface is derived from the @code{colormap} and
 ## the value of @var{z}.  Optionally the color of the surface can be
 ## specified independent of @var{z}, by adding a fourth matrix, @var{c}.
 ## @seealso{colormap, contour, meshgrid, mesh}

--- a/scripts/polynomial/polyaffine.m	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/polynomial/polyaffine.m	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} polyaffine (@var{f}, @var{mu})
 ## Return the coefficients of the polynomial vector @var{f} after an affine
-## tranformation.  If @var{f} is the vector representing the polynomial f(x),
+## transformation.  If @var{f} is the vector representing the polynomial f(x),
 ## then @code{@var{g} = polyaffine (@var{f}, @var{mu})} is the vector
 ## representing:
 ##

--- a/src/ChangeLog	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/src/ChangeLog	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-01-19  Rik  <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
+
+	* src/data.cc, src/input.cc, src/utils.cc: spellcheck docstrings.
+
 2011-01-19  Rik  <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
 
 	* DLD-FUNCTIONS/dlmread.cc, DLD-FUNCTIONS/filter.cc,

--- a/src/data.cc	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/src/data.cc	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -5023,7 +5023,7 @@
   "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
 @deftypefn  {Built-in Function} {} mtimes (@var{x}, @var{y})\n\
 @deftypefnx {Built-in Function} {} mtimes (@var{x1}, @var{x2}, @dots{})\n\
-Return the matrix multiplicaton product of inputs.\n\
+Return the matrix multiplication product of inputs.\n\
 This function is equivalent to @w{@code{x * y}}.\n\
 If more arguments are given, the multiplication is applied\n\
 cumulatively from left to right:\n\
@@ -5032,7 +5032,7 @@
   (@dots{}((x1 * x2) * x3) * @dots{})\n\
 @end example\n\
 \n\
-At least one argument is requred.\n\
+At least one argument is required.\n\
 @seealso{times}\n\
 @end deftypefn")
 {

--- a/src/input.cc	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/src/input.cc	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -1379,14 +1379,14 @@
 character string.  @xref{Strings}.\n\
 \n\
 You can also use ANSI escape sequences if your terminal supports them.\n\
-This can be useful for colouring the prompt.  For example,\n\
+This can be useful for coloring the prompt.  For example,\n\
 \n\
 @example\n\
 PS1 (\"\\\\[\\\\033[01;31m\\\\]\\\\s:\\\\#> \\\\[\\\\033[0m\\]\")\n\
 @end example\n\
 \n\
 @noindent\n\
-will give the default Octave prompt a red colouring.\n\
+will give the default Octave prompt a red coloring.\n\
 @seealso{PS2, PS4}\n\
 @end deftypefn")
 {

--- a/src/utils.cc	Thu Jan 20 00:12:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/src/utils.cc	Wed Jan 19 21:16:13 2011 -0800
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@
 @deftypefn  {Built-in Function} {} isindex (@var{ind})\n\
 @deftypefnx {Built-in Function} {} isindex (@var{ind}, @var{n})\n\
 Return true if @var{ind} is a valid index.  Valid indices are\n\
-either positive integers (although possibly of real datatype), or logical\n\
+either positive integers (although possibly of real data type), or logical\n\
 arrays.  If present, @var{n} specifies the maximum extent of the dimension\n\
 to be indexed.  When possible the internal result is cached so that\n\
 subsequent indexing using @var{ind} will not perform the check again.\n\