diff --git a/content/guides/quickstart/voting-guide.md b/content/guides/quickstart/voting-guide.md
index 78b3f2f..0c83e1b 100644
--- a/content/guides/quickstart/voting-guide.md
+++ b/content/guides/quickstart/voting-guide.md
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ be sent or received in *pokes* (one-off messages):
 - `%withdraw`: delete a poll.
 
 
-We'll also define an `update` structure, which wil be the kinds of events that
+We'll also define an `update` structure, which will be the kinds of events that
 subscribers may be notified about:
 
-- `%init`: given the intial polls and their state to a new subscriber.
+- `%init`: given the initial polls and their state to a new subscriber.
 - `%vote`: someone has voted on a poll.
 - `%new`: someone has created a new poll.
 - `%withdraw`: someone has withdrawn an existing poll.
@@ -317,12 +317,12 @@ groups we're a member of. It additionally handles group updates from the
 `%squad` agent. In the former case, the events we'll receive will contain
 `update`s, which we'll process in a similar manner to the `action`s in
 `on-poke`. All incoming votes will be validated here also. In the latter case,
-we'll receive `%squad` `upd` updates, such as members joining or leave groups,
+we'll receive `%squad` `upd` updates, such as members joining or leaving groups,
 and we'll handle them as appropriate.
 
 We differentiate between these two cases by testing the `wire`, which is a
 message tag we set when we initially subscribed. For `%squad` updates it will be
-`/squad`, and for the rest it'll be the group ID we've subscribe to.
+`/squad`, and for the rest it'll be the group ID we've subscribed to.
 
 #### The code
 
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ Gall agents live in the `/app` directory of a desk, so save this code in
     %1  `this(state old)
     %0  `this(state [%1 by-group.old voted.old withdrawn.old %subs])
   ==
-:: on-poke handles "pokes", which are one-off requests/actions intiated
+:: on-poke handles "pokes", which are one-off requests/actions initiated
 :: locally or by remote ships. If it's a %tally-action we call
 :: a handle-action function, and if it's a %handle-http-request from the
 :: front-end we call the handle-http function
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ Gall agents live in the `/app` directory of a desk, so save this code in
     ?.  authenticated.req
       :_  state(section %subs)
       (give-http:hc rid [307 ['Location' '/~/login?redirect='] ~] ~)
-    :: otherwise, switch on the method, prodicing a 405 response for
+    :: otherwise, switch on the method, producing a 405 response for
     :: unhandled methods
     ::
     ?+  method.request.req
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ Gall agents live in the `/app` directory of a desk, so save this code in
       :: calculate the expiry data
       ::
       =/  expiry=@da  (add now.bol (yule days.act 0 0 0 ~))
-      :: retreive all polls from state for this gid
+      :: retrieve all polls from state for this gid
       ::
       =/  polls=(map pid [=poll =votes])
         (fall (~(get by by-group) gid.act) *(map pid [=poll =votes]))
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ Gall agents live in the `/app` directory of a desk, so save this code in
       :: vote on a poll
       ::
         %vote
-      :: retreive the target poll from state
+      :: retrieve the target poll from state
       ::
       =/  [=poll =votes]  (~(got bi by-group) gid.act pid.act)
       :: make sure it hasn't expired
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ Gall agents live in the `/app` directory of a desk, so save this code in
       ?>  ?|  =(our.bol src.bol)
               &(=(src.bol creator.poll) (gte expiry.poll now.bol))
           ==
-      :: update state and notify subscribers of the withdrawl
+      :: update state and notify subscribers of the withdrawal
       ::
       :_  %=  state
             by-group   (~(del bi by-group) gid.act pid.act)
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ Gall agents live in the `/app` directory of a desk, so save this code in
       (fall (~(get by by-group) gid) *(map pid [=poll =votes]))
   ==
 :: on-agent handles either responses to requests we've
-:: initated or subscription updates from people or agents
+:: initiated or subscription updates from people or agents
 :: to which we've previously subscribed
 ::
 ++  on-agent
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ Save the code below in `tally/app/tally/index.hoon`.
       ==
     ==
   ==
-:: we retreive a list of all squads and sort them
+:: we retrieve a list of all squads and sort them
 :: alphabetically by title
 ::
 =/  all-squads=(list (pair gid squad))