diff --git a/pod/perl5101delta.pod b/pod/perl5101delta.pod
index 986981e6b0..c3be25fa72 100644
--- a/pod/perl5101delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5101delta.pod
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ Two flag bits are currently supported.
 
 =item C<SVf_UTF8>
 
-This will call C<SvUTF8_on()> for you. (Note that this does not convert an
+This will call C<SvUTF8_on()> for you. (Note that this does not convert a
 sequence of ISO 8859-1 characters to UTF-8). A wrapper, C<newSVpvn_utf8()>
 is available for this.
 
diff --git a/pod/perl5140delta.pod b/pod/perl5140delta.pod
index 3c6acd3aee..c18665279f 100644
--- a/pod/perl5140delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5140delta.pod
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ the regex to utf8 is necessary but this isn't known when the compilation begins.
 =head2 String appending is 100 times faster
 
 When doing a lot of string appending, perls built to use the system's
-C<malloc> could end up allocating a lot more memory than needed in a
+C<malloc> could end up allocating a lot more memory than needed in an
 inefficient way.
 
 C<sv_grow>, the function used to allocate more memory if necessary
diff --git a/pod/perl5380delta.pod b/pod/perl5380delta.pod
index 36c33cc665..995425514e 100644
--- a/pod/perl5380delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5380delta.pod
@@ -1568,7 +1568,7 @@ Unicode normalization tests have been added.
 
 =item *
 
-t/test.pl: Add ability to cancel an watchdog timer
+t/test.pl: Add ability to cancel a watchdog timer
 
 =back