diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 204be14..b090755 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Option to merge TACs across runs for each subject within a single session.
 
 #### `--docker`
 
-Indicates the script will run within a Docker container that contains all of the necessary dependencies for this project. A version of FreeSurfer should stil be installed along with a valid license. If you have difficulty using this extra option below is an example of an "unwrapped" command to execute this pipeline in Docker.
+Indicates the script will run within a Docker container that contains all of the necessary dependencies for this project. A version of FreeSurfer should still be installed along with a valid license. If you have difficulty using this extra option below is an example of an "unwrapped" command to execute this pipeline in Docker.
 
 ```bash
 docker run -a stderr -a stdout --rm \ 
diff --git a/petprep_extract_tacs/utils/merge_tacs.py b/petprep_extract_tacs/utils/merge_tacs.py
index cff9904..d287bc5 100644
--- a/petprep_extract_tacs/utils/merge_tacs.py
+++ b/petprep_extract_tacs/utils/merge_tacs.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def collect_and_merge_tsvs(bids_dir, subjects=[], **kwargs):
                 subjects_to_be_merged[subject][k] = []
             subjects_to_be_merged[subject][k].append(tsv)
 
-    # now we only focuse on subjects that are specified if that's given in thes arguments
+    # now we only focus on subjects that are specified if that's given in these arguments
     # subjects = [01, 02, ...] for this function
     if subjects != []:
         subjects_to_remove = list(set(subjects_to_be_merged.keys() - set(subjects)))
diff --git a/tests/test_merge_tacs.py b/tests/test_merge_tacs.py
index 0a6a711..828579d 100644
--- a/tests/test_merge_tacs.py
+++ b/tests/test_merge_tacs.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def test_collect_and_merge_tsvs():
         # get all tsvs with glob
         all_tsvs = glob.glob(f"{tempdir}/**/*.tsv", recursive=True)
 
-        # ignore everthing that doesn't have run in it.
+        # ignore everything that doesn't have run in it.
         unmerged_run_tsvs = [tsv for tsv in all_tsvs if "_run-" in tsv]
         unmerged_run_tsvs.sort()
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def test_collect_and_merge_tsvs():
         merged_tsvs = collect_and_merge_tsvs(bids_dir=tempdir)
         merged_tsvs = {tsv: pandas.read_csv(tsv, sep="\t") for tsv in merged_tsvs}
 
-        # check that the merged tsvs are the concatentaion of the unmerged tac tsvs same as the unmerged run tsvs
+        # check that the merged tsvs are the concatentation of the unmerged tac tsvs same as the unmerged run tsvs
         tacs = [unmerged_run_tsvs[tsv] for tsv in unmerged_run_tsvs if "tacs" in tsv]
 
         # add up lengths of split tacs