diff --git a/backend/compress/compress.go b/backend/compress/compress.go
index 5e9f9b1f9..f1aa9b32f 100644
--- a/backend/compress/compress.go
+++ b/backend/compress/compress.go
@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ func init() {
 			Help: `GZIP compression level (-2 to 9).
 
 			Generally -1 (default, equivalent to 5) is recommended.
-			Levels 1 to 9 increase compressiong at the cost of speed.. Going past 6 
+			Levels 1 to 9 increase compression at the cost of speed. Going past 6 
 			generally offers very little return.
 			
-			Level -2 uses Huffmann encoding only. Only use if you now what you
-			are doing
+			Level -2 uses Huffmann encoding only. Only use if you know what you
+			are doing.
 			Level 0 turns off compression.`,
 			Default:  sgzip.DefaultCompression,
 			Advanced: true,
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ func init() {
 				   In this case the compressed file will need to be cached to determine
 				   it's size.
 				   
-				   Files smaller than this limit will be cached in RAM, file larger than 
-				   this limit will be cached on disk`,
+				   Files smaller than this limit will be cached in RAM, files larger than 
+				   this limit will be cached on disk.`,
 			Default:  fs.SizeSuffix(20 * 1024 * 1024),
 			Advanced: true,
 		}},
diff --git a/docs/content/compress.md b/docs/content/compress.md
index f317c61c5..fbe5ca5b4 100644
--- a/docs/content/compress.md
+++ b/docs/content/compress.md
@@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ y/e/d> y
 ```
 
 ### Compression Modes
-Currently only gzip compression is supported, it provides a decent balance between speed and strength and is well
-supported by other application. Compression strength can further be configured via an advanced setting where 0 is no
+Currently only gzip compression is supported. It provides a decent balance between speed and size and is well
+supported by other applications. Compression strength can further be configured via an advanced setting where 0 is no
 compression and 9 is strongest compression.
 
 #### Filetype
-If you open a remote wrapped by press, you will see that there are many files with an extension corresponding to
+If you open a remote wrapped by compress, you will see that there are many files with an extension corresponding to
 the compression algorithm you chose. These files are standard files that can be opened by various archive programs, 
 but they have some hidden metadata that allows them to be used by rclone.
 While you may download and decompress these files at will, do **not** manually delete or rename files. Files without