diff --git a/.github/spellcheck-settings.yml b/.github/spellcheck-settings.yml
index 6a08204..df5663b 100644
--- a/.github/spellcheck-settings.yml
+++ b/.github/spellcheck-settings.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 matrix:
   - name: Markdown
     expect_match: false
-    apsell:
+    aspell:
       lang: en
       d: en_US
       ignore-case: true
diff --git a/.github/wordlist.txt b/.github/wordlist.txt
index 1f092e2..e32e8b0 100644
--- a/.github/wordlist.txt
+++ b/.github/wordlist.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ boolean
 customizable
 dataset
 de
-dedcoded
 extensibility
 gcc
 gevent
diff --git a/.github/workflows/integration.yaml b/.github/workflows/integration.yaml
index 9eefedb..69e7deb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/integration.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/integration.yaml
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python setup.py bdist_wheel
 
-  # This is a noop job that is only needed for Github settings of the project.
-  # Github doesn't allow requiring all the checks and instead makes you specify
+  # This is a noop job that is only needed for GitHub settings of the project.
+  # GitHub doesn't allow requiring all the checks and instead makes you specify
   # all the jobs one by one. "run-tests" however is a matrix job and specifying
-  # all of its possible items is tedious. So we add this job to make Github happy.
+  # all of its possible items is tedious. So we add this job to make GitHub happy.
   verify_tests_succeeded:
     name: Verify that tests succeeded
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yaml
index 7fab8b3..a41ee9d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Publish tag to Pypi
+name: Publish tag to PyPI
 on:
   release:
     types: [published]
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
           path: ./wheelhouse/*.whl
 
   publish:
-    name: Pypi publish
+    name: PyPI publish
     needs: ['build_sdist', 'build_wheels']
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     environment: pypi
@@ -89,5 +89,5 @@ jobs:
           cp -R artifacts/linux/* dist
           cp -R artifacts/macos/* dist
           cp -R artifacts/sdist/* dist
-      - name: Publish to Pypi
+      - name: Publish to PyPI
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f116f1b..7645dff 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 ### 1.0.1 (2019-11-13)
 
 * Permit all allowed values of codec errors (see #86)
-* BUGFIX: READEME.md has UTF-8 characters, setup.py will fail on systems
+* BUGFIX: README.md has UTF-8 characters, setup.py will fail on systems
           where the locale is not UTF-8. (see #89)
 
 ### 1.0.0 (2019-01-20)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0abcf6a..885a4a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -90,11 +90,9 @@ initializing it:
 
 Decoding of bulk data will be attempted using the specified encoding and
 error handler. If the error handler is `'strict'` (the default), a
-`UnicodeDecodeError` is raised when data cannot be dedcoded. This is identical
+`UnicodeDecodeError` is raised when data cannot be decoded. This is identical
 to Python's default behavior. Other valid values to `errors` include
-`'replace'`, `'ignore'`, and `'backslashreplace'`. More information on the
-behavior of these error handlers can be found
-[here](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html#the-string-type).
+`'replace'`, `'ignore'`, and `'backslashreplace'`. See [Unicode HOWTO: The String Type](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html#the-string-type) for more information on the behavior of these error handlers.
 
 
 When the specified encoding cannot be found, a `LookupError` will be raised