diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87c1a859d..964df9abc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jrnl
 ====
 
 _To get help, [submit an issue](https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl/issues/new/choose) on
-Github._
+GitHub._
 
 `jrnl` is a simple journal application for the command line.
 
diff --git a/jrnl/args.py b/jrnl/args.py
index 5c0283c9c..9b7dafe7f 100644
--- a/jrnl/args.py
+++ b/jrnl/args.py
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ def parse_args(args: list[str] = []) -> argparse.Namespace:
         nargs="?",
         metavar="DATE",
         const="now",
-        help="Change timestamp for seleted entries (default: now)",
+        help="Change timestamp for selected entries (default: now)",
     )
     exporting.add_argument(
         "--format",
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ def parse_args(args: list[str] = []) -> argparse.Namespace:
         "--tags",
         dest="tags",
         action="store_true",
-        help="Alias for '--format tags'. Returns a list of all tags and number of occurences",
+        help="Alias for '--format tags'. Returns a list of all tags and number of occurrences",
     )
     exporting.add_argument(
         "--short",
diff --git a/jrnl/time.py b/jrnl/time.py
index f91d490c7..514d94f20 100644
--- a/jrnl/time.py
+++ b/jrnl/time.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def parse(
     elif isinstance(date_str, datetime.datetime):
         return date_str
 
-    # Don't try to parse anything with 6 or less characters and was parsed from the existing journal.
+    # Don't try to parse anything with 6 or fewer characters and was parsed from the existing journal.
     # It's probably a markdown footnote
     if len(date_str) <= 6 and bracketed:
         return None
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def parse(
         date = datetime.datetime(*date[:6])
 
     # Ugly heuristic: if the date is more than 4 weeks in the future, we got the year wrong.
-    # Rather then this, we would like to see parsedatetime patched so we can tell it to prefer
+    # Rather than this, we would like to see parsedatetime patched so we can tell it to prefer
     # past dates
     dt = datetime.datetime.now() - date
     if dt.days < -28 and not year_present: