Aspell mods and a few grammar fixes

Author: markmontymark

authors-guide.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ A typical cookbook page will have three sections (four if you count the title):
 
 ## Copyright Issues
 
-Do not post code that is copyrighted by another user, unless you have permission to use that code AND to relicense that code under the [CC BY 3.0](/license) license. If you DO have permission and the author would like credit, please add them to the [authors](/authors) page.
+Do not post code that is copyrighted by another user, unless you have permission to use that code AND to re-license that code under the [CC BY 3.0](/license) license. If you DO have permission and the author would like credit, please add them to the [authors](/authors) page.
 
 Also, just a stylistic note, please do not yank code directly from [http://coffeescript.org/](http://coffeescript.org/) and post it with little or no discussion. The CoffeeScript Cookbook is not affiliated with them. We think they're awesome and want them to like us, too! Make sure that anything taken from [http://coffeescript.org/](http://coffeescript.org/) is permissible use and that it stands alone as a valid recipe. If the recipe is too terse, consider adding more examples and discussion.
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ If the answer to either question is no, you might have some code that is a "clev
 
 ## What If My Recipe is Inefficient/Too Big/Too Slow?
 
-If it solves a problem to which the alternative is to _not_ solve the problem, share it. Let the reader decide if they want to use it. Sometimes we want tight efficient code, other times we want a robust featureset. If the code has abysmal performance characteristics, be sure to warn the reader in the Discussion.
+If it solves a problem to which the alternative is to _not_ solve the problem, share it. Let the reader decide if they want to use it. Sometimes we want tight efficient code, other times we want a robust feature set. If the code has abysmal performance characteristics, be sure to warn the reader in the Discussion.
 
 ## Can I Edit An Existing Recipe?
 

chapters/ajax/ajax_request_without_jquery.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ loadDataFromServer = ->
   req = new XMLHttpRequest()
 
   req.addEventListener 'readystatechange', ->
-    if req.readyState is 4                        # ReadyState Compelte
+    if req.readyState is 4                        # ReadyState Complete
       successResultCodes = [200, 304]
       if req.status in successResultCodes
         data = eval '(' + req.responseText + ')'
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ We define our loadDataFromServer callback beginning on line 2.
 
 We create a XMLHttpRequest request object (line 3) and add a *readystatechange* event handler.  This fires whenever the request's readyState changes.
 
-In the event handler we check to see if the readyState = 4, indicating the request has completed.  Then, we check the request status value.  Both 200 or 304 represent a succsessful request.  Anything else represents an error condition.
+In the event handler we check to see if the readyState = 4, indicating the request has completed.  Then, we check the request status value.  Both 200 or 304 represent a successful request.  Anything else represents an error condition.
 
 If the request was indeed successful, we eval the JSON returned from the server and assign it to a data variable.  At this point, we can use the returned data in any way we need to.
 
 The last thing we need to do is actually make our request.
 
-Line 13 opens a 'GET' request to retreive the data.json file.
+Line 13 opens a 'GET' request to retrieve the data.json file.
 
 Line 14 sends our request to the server. 
 

chapters/arrays/filtering-arrays.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ array.filter (x) -> x > 5
 # => [6,7,8,9,10]
 {% endhighlight %}
 
-In pre-EC5 implementations, extend the Array prototype to add a filter function which will take a callback and perform a comprension over itself, collecting all elements for which the callback is true. Be sure to check if the function is already implemented before overwriting it:
+In pre-EC5 implementations, extend the Array prototype to add a filter function which will take a callback and perform a comprehension over itself, collecting all elements for which the callback is true. Be sure to check if the function is already implemented before overwriting it:
 
 {% highlight coffeescript %}
 # Extending Array's prototype

chapters/arrays/reducing-arrays.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ You have an array of objects and want to reduce them to a value, similar to Ruby
 
 ## Solution
 
-You can simply use Array's `reduce()` and `reduceRight()` methods along with an anonoymous function, keeping the code clean and readable. The reduction may be something simple such as using the `+` operator with numbers or strings.
+You can simply use Array's `reduce()` and `reduceRight()` methods along with an anonymous function, keeping the code clean and readable. The reduction may be something simple such as using the `+` operator with numbers or strings.
 
 {% highlight coffeescript %}
 [1,2,3,4].reduce (x,y) -> x + y

chapters/arrays/testing-every-element.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ evens.every (x)-> x % 2 == 0
 # => true
 {% endhighlight %}
 
-Array.every was addded to Mozilla's Javascript 1.6 and made standard with EcmaScript 5. If you to support browsers that do not implement EC5 then check out [`_.all` from underscore.js][underscore].
+Array.every was added to Mozilla's Javascript 1.6 and made standard with ECMAScript 5. If you to support browsers that do not implement EC5 then check out [`_.all` from underscore.js][underscore].
 
 For a real world example, pretend you have a multiple select list that looks like:
 

chapters/arrays/where-for-arrays-of-objects.md

@@ -77,4 +77,4 @@ cats.where name:"bubbles", (a, b) -> "#{ a }".toLowerCase() is "#{ b }".toLowerC
 # now it's case insensitive
 {% endhighlight %}
 
-it's more a method to deal with collection and it could be rename as "find" but popular libraires like underscore or lodash name it "where". 
+it's more a method to deal with collection and it could be rename as "find" but popular libraries like underscore or lodash name it "where". 

chapters/classes_and_objects/class-variables.md

@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ zoo.helpfulInfo()
 
 ## Discussion
 
-Coffeescript will store these values on the class itself rather than on the prototype it defines.  These are useful for defining variables on classes which can't be overrided by instance attribute variables.
+Coffeescript will store these values on the class itself rather than on the prototype it defines.  These are useful for defining variables on classes which can't be overridden by instance attribute variables.

chapters/dates_and_times/date-of-thanksgiving.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ chapter: Dates and Times
 ---
 ## Problem
 
-You need to calculate when is Thanksgivinig in given year.
+You need to calculate when Thanksgiving is in a given year.
 
 ## Solution
 

chapters/dates_and_times/days-between-two-dates.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ You need to find how much seconds minutes, hours, days, months or years has pass
 
 ## Solution
 
-Use JavaScript's Date function  getTime(). Which provides how much time in miliseconds has passed since 01/01/1970:
+Use JavaScript's Date function  getTime(). Which provides how much time in milliseconds has passed since 01/01/1970:
 
 {% highlight coffeescript %}
 DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60  * 24
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ days_passed = Math.round((d2.getTime() - d1.getTime()) / DAY)
 
 ## Discussion
 
-Using miliseconds makes the life easier to avoid overflow mistakes with Dates. So we first calculate how much miliseconds has a day.
-Then, given two distincit dates, just get the diference in miliseconds betwen two dates and then divide by how much miliseconds has a
+Using milliseconds makes the life easier to avoid overflow mistakes with Dates. So we first calculate how much milliseconds has a day.
+Then, given two distinct dates, just get the difference in milliseconds between two dates and then divide by how much milliseconds has a
 day. It will get you the days between two distinct dates.
 
-If you'd like to calculate the hours between two dates objects you can do that just by dividing the diference in miliseconds by the
-convertion of miliseconds to hours. The same goes to minutes and seconds.
+If you'd like to calculate the hours between two date objects, you can do that just by dividing the difference in milliseconds by the
+conversion of milliseconds to hours. The same goes for minutes and seconds.
 
 {% highlight coffeescript %}
 HOUR = 1000 * 60 * 60

chapters/dates_and_times/moon-phase-for-date.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ You want to find the current phase of the moon.
 
 ## Solution
 
-The following code provides a method to calcualate the phase of the moon for a given date.
+The following code provides a method to calculate the phase of the moon for a given date.
 
 {% highlight coffeescript %}
 # moonPhase.coffee