diff --git a/.words b/.words
index 63fba00c1..24be7f625 100644
--- a/.words
+++ b/.words
@@ -1,26 +1,9 @@
 1
-## ^^^ size estimate, just needs to be non-zero
-##
-## The .words file is used by gospel (v1.2+), which wraps the Hunspell libraries but populates the dictionary with identifiers from the Go source.
-## <https://github.com/kortschak/gospel>
-##
-## Comment lines are not actually parsed as comments, try to be careful ... but in practice they seem to work?
-##
-## We assume en_US hunspell dictionaries are installed and used.  The /AFFIXRULES are defined in en_US.aff (eg: /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff)
-##
-## words which are in the base dictionary can't have extra affix rules added to them, so we have to start with the affixed variant we want to add.
-##   thus creds rather than cred/S and so on
-## So we can't use receive/DRSZGBU, adding 'U', to allow unreceive and variants, we have to use unreceive as the stem.
-## We can't define our own affix or compound rules, to capture rfc\d{3,} or 0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}
-
-## People involved who are referenced in todo/fixmes
+
 derek
 dlc
 ivan
 
-## Legitimate spellings in non-US English dialects;
-## regular-if-rarer words just missing from the dictionary;
-## variants of words not covered by hunspell en_US rules.
 acknowledgement/SM
 arity
 deduplication/S
@@ -31,31 +14,12 @@ observable/S
 redelivery/S
 retransmitting
 retry/SB
-unmarshal/SDG
-
-# I think that retry, being added as a symbol, is precluding the re-addition here with affix rules,
-# so "retry/SB" above is ignored
-retries
-retryable
-
-## Things gospel doesn't pick up, but doesn't yet; I've filed <https://github.com/kortschak/gospel/issues/9>
-## Eg, plurals of non-collection types, or wire-format encodings in a struct field's tag
-AsyncSubscriptions
-ChanSubscriptions
-PubAckFutures
-SubOpts
-SyncSubscriptions
-no_wait
-
-## Conceptual nouns not actually in the source, describing state
+
 SlowConsumer
 
-## Symbols from elsewhere referred to in comments but not referenced in the code, so not currently surfaced by gospel as acceptable
 AppendInt
 ReadMIMEHeader
 
-## The rest
-
 clientProtoZero
 jetstream
 v1
@@ -83,8 +47,6 @@ tm
 todo
 unsub/S
 
-## The spelling tokenizer doesn't take "permessage-deflate" as allowing for ... "permessage-deflate",
-## which is an RFC7692 registered extension.  We have to explicitly list "permessage".
 permessage
 permessage-deflate
 urlA
diff --git a/.words.readme b/.words.readme
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d9f5cbbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.words.readme
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+The .words file is used by gospel (v1.2+), which wraps the Hunspell libraries
+but populates the dictionary with identifiers from the Go source.
+
+<https://github.com/kortschak/gospel>
+
+Alas, no comments are allowed in the .words file and newer versions of gospel
+error out on seeing them.  This is really a hunspell restriction.
+
+We assume en_US hunspell dictionaries are installed and used.
+The /AFFIXRULES are defined in en_US.aff (eg: /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff)
+Invoke `hunspell -D` to see the actual locations.
+
+Words which are in the base dictionary can't have extra affix rules added to
+them, so we have to start with the affixed variant we want to add.
+Thus `creds` rather than `cred/S` and so on.
+
+So we can't use receive/DRSZGBU, adding 'U', to allow unreceive and variants,
+we have to use unreceive as the stem.
+
+We can't define our own affix or compound rules,
+to capture rfc\d{3,} or 0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}
+
+The spelling tokenizer doesn't take "permessage-deflate" as allowing for ...
+"permessage-deflate", which is an RFC7692 registered extension for websockets.
+We have to explicitly list "permessage".
diff --git a/js.go b/js.go
index 4013a975e..1259743ec 100644
--- a/js.go
+++ b/js.go
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ func RetryWait(dur time.Duration) PubOpt {
 	})
 }
 
-// RetryAttempts sets the retry number of attemopts when ErrNoResponders is encountered.
+// RetryAttempts sets the retry number of attempts when ErrNoResponders is encountered.
 func RetryAttempts(num int) PubOpt {
 	return pubOptFn(func(opts *pubOpts) error {
 		opts.rnum = num