diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
index f008c6562..76962893b 100644
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Model: YOUR MODEL HERE
 
 Architecture: `uname -m`
 
-## Addtional information
+## Additional information
 Mention things we might need to know. Like:
 
 What I think needs to be done:
diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
index e67d4da38..43bc967df 100644
--- a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
+++ b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ Fixes #
 (let GitHub automatically close an issue when this pull request gets merged)
 
 ## Before you submit a pull request
-This template is not neccessary when you do simple things like updating packages to the latest version. But in doubt, it's always better so provide some information.
+This template is not necessary when you do simple things like updating packages to the latest version. But in doubt, it's always better so provide some information.
 
 ## Description
 Provide a description, what your changes do and why they are important
 
 Please link issues and other pull requests connected to this one.
 
-## Addtional information
+## Additional information
 Mention things we might need to know. Like:
 
 Works properly:
diff --git a/Manual.md b/Manual.md
index eb7f721d5..057112ad0 100644
--- a/Manual.md
+++ b/Manual.md
@@ -94,13 +94,13 @@ The rundown of what each function and variable are/(can be) used for follows.
 
 A simple example ruby script can be found on the [Wiki](https://github.com/skycocker/chromebrew/wiki/Creating-a-package).
 ```ruby
-require 'package' # must occour within each `.rb`
+require 'package' # must occur within each `.rb`
 			      # Notice the newline
 class Template < Package # Notice the capitals, EG: 'I3' - would be used for an 'i3' package
   description 'The template script' # Notice the indent, should contain no more than one line of text
   homepage '#' # Notice the same indent, EG: 'https://i3wm.org/' - Would be used for an 'i3' Package
   version 'version#-revision#' # EG: 4.18.2-1 - Where '4.18.2' is the version and '1' is the revision - Omit revision on new packges
-  compatibility '#' # Can contain 'all', or a list of supported architectures each seperated by a space
+  compatibility '#' # Can contain 'all', or a list of supported architectures each separated by a space
   source_url '#' # The URL from which the source of the package can be downloaded
   source_sha256 '#' # The `sha256` checksum of the downloaded source package
                   # Notice the newline
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ NOTE: All rules can have exceptions, if ***REQUIRED***, exceptions to the rules
 
 <a name="eq">`CREW_OPTIONS`</a>: Equal to `--prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib --mandir=/usr/local/share/man --build=armv7l-cros-linux-gnueabihf --host=armv7l-cros-linux-gnueabihf --target=#{CREW_BUILD}`
 
-Any additonally required resources for ChromeOS or ChromeBooks cane be found [here](https://github.com/skycocker/chromebrew/wiki/Links)
+Any additionally required resources for ChromeOS or ChromeBooks can be found [here](https://github.com/skycocker/chromebrew/wiki/Links)
 
 Still can't find something? Have a look in [`Issues`](https://github.com/skycocker/chromebrew/issues)<sup>Or post a issue</sup>
 
diff --git a/bin/crew b/bin/crew
index eee3efaef..f3006bea8 100755
--- a/bin/crew
+++ b/bin/crew
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ ENV["XZ_OPT"] = ENV['CREW_XZ_OPT'] || "-7e -T #{CREW_NPROC}"
 # If CURL environment variable exists use it in lieu of curl.
 CURL = ENV['CURL'] || 'curl'
 
+# All available crew commands.
+@cmds = ["build", "const", "download", "files", "help", "install", "list", "postinstall", "reinstall", "remove", "search", "update", "upgrade", "whatprovides"]
+
 # Parse arguments using docopt
 require_relative '../lib/docopt'
 begin
@@ -89,10 +92,9 @@ rescue Docopt::Exit => e
     end
     if ARGV[0] != '-h' and ARGV[0] != '--help' then
       puts "Could not understand \"crew #{ARGV.join(' ')}\".".lightred
-      cmds = ["build", "const", "download", "files", "help", "install", "list", "postinstall", "reinstall", "remove", "search", "update", "upgrade", "whatprovides"]
       # Looking for similar commands
-      if not cmds.include?(ARGV[0]) then
-        similar = cmds.select {|word| edit_distance(ARGV[0], word) < 4}
+      if not @cmds.include?(ARGV[0]) then
+        similar = @cmds.select {|word| edit_distance(ARGV[0], word) < 4}
         if not similar.empty? then
           puts 'Did you mean?'
           similar.each {|sug| puts "  #{sug}"}
@@ -328,7 +330,7 @@ def help (pkgName)
     puts "Usage: crew whatprovides <pattern> ..."
     puts "The <pattern> is a search string which can contain regular expressions."
   else
-    puts "Available commands: build, const, download, files, help, install, list, postinstall, reinstall ,remove, search, update, upgrade, whatprovides"
+    puts "Available commands: #{@cmds.join(', ')}"
   end
 end
 
@@ -593,11 +595,11 @@ def download
       system "#{CURL} --retry 3 -#{@verbose}#LC - --insecure \'#{url}\' --output #{filename}"
       abort 'Checksum mismatch. :/ Try again.'.lightred unless
         Digest::SHA256.hexdigest( File.read(filename) ) == sha256sum
-      puts "Archive downloaded".lightgreen
+      puts 'Archive downloaded.'.lightgreen
       # Stow file in cache if requested
       if CREW_CACHE_ENABLED
-        puts 'Caching downloaded archive'.lightgreen
         FileUtils.cp filename, CREW_CACHE_DIR, verbose: @fileutils_verbose
+        puts 'Archive cached.'.lightgreen
       end
 
     # Sources that download with git
@@ -635,16 +637,17 @@ def download
           system 'git checkout FETCH_HEAD'
         end
         system 'git submodule update --init --recursive'
-        puts "Repository downloaded".lightgreen
+        puts 'Repository downloaded.'.lightgreen
       end
       # Stow file in cache if requested
       if CREW_CACHE_ENABLED
-        puts 'Caching downloaded archive.'.lightgreen
-          Dir.chdir "#{@extract_dir}" do 
+        puts 'Caching downloaded archive...'
+          Dir.chdir "#{@extract_dir}" do
             system "tar c#{@verbose}Jf #{CREW_CACHE_DIR}/#{filename}.tar.xz \
               $(find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -printf '%P\n')"
           end
         system "sha256sum #{CREW_CACHE_DIR}/#{filename}.tar.xz > #{CREW_CACHE_DIR}/#{filename}.tar.xz.sha256"
+        puts 'Archive cached.'.lightgreen
       end
     end
   end
@@ -657,15 +660,15 @@ def unpack (meta)
     FileUtils.mkdir_p @extract_dir, verbose: @fileutils_verbose
     case File.basename meta[:filename]
     when /\.zip$/i
-      puts "Unpacking archive using 'unzip', this may take a while...".lightgreen
+      puts "Unpacking archive using 'unzip', this may take a while..."
       _verbopt = @opt_verbose ? '-v' : '-qq'
       system 'unzip', _verbopt, '-d', @extract_dir, meta[:filename], exception: true
     when /\.(tar(\.(gz|bz2|xz|lz))?|tgz|tbz|txz)$/i
-      puts "Unpacking archive using 'tar', this may take a while...".lightgreen
+      puts "Unpacking archive using 'tar', this may take a while..."
       FileUtils.mkdir @extract_dir unless Dir.exist?(@extract_dir)
       system "tar x#{@verbose}f #{meta[:filename]} -C #{@extract_dir}", exception: true
     when /\.deb$/i
-      puts "Unpacking archive using 'ar', this may take a while...".lightgreen
+      puts "Unpacking archive using 'ar', this may take a while..."
       FileUtils.mkdir @extract_dir unless Dir.exist?(@extract_dir)
       system "ar -p #{meta[:filename]} data.tar.xz | xz -dc#{@verbose} | tar x#{@verbose} -C #{@extract_dir}", exception: true
     end
@@ -765,7 +768,7 @@ def prepare_package (destdir)
     system 'cut -c2- ../filelist > filelist'
 
     # check for conflicts with other installed files
-    puts "Checking for conflicts with files from installed packages.".lightgreen
+    puts "Checking for conflicts with files from installed packages..."
     conflicts = []
     @conflictscmd = "grep --exclude #{CREW_META_PATH}#{@pkg.name}.filelist \
       -Fxf filelist #{CREW_META_PATH}*.filelist | tr ':' ' ' | \
diff --git a/lib/const.rb b/lib/const.rb
index 40f00591d..23772e46b 100644
--- a/lib/const.rb
+++ b/lib/const.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Defines common constants used in different parts of crew
 
-CREW_VERSION = '1.8.8'
+CREW_VERSION = '1.8.9'
 
 ARCH_ACTUAL = `uname -m`.strip
 # This helps with virtualized builds on aarch64 machines
diff --git a/packages/aview.rb b/packages/aview.rb
index 476bc440f..140465fef 100644
--- a/packages/aview.rb
+++ b/packages/aview.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require 'package'
 
 class Aview < Package
-  description 'aview is an high quality ascii-art image(pnm) browser and animation(fli/flc) player usefull especially with lynx browser.'
+  description 'aview is an high quality ascii-art image(pnm) browser and animation(fli/flc) player useful especially with lynx browser.'
   homepage 'http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aview/'
   version '1.3.0rc1'
   license 'GPL-2'
diff --git a/packages/gtk_doc.rb b/packages/gtk_doc.rb
index 3d87baf24..c04af81d5 100644
--- a/packages/gtk_doc.rb
+++ b/packages/gtk_doc.rb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class Gtk_doc < Package
   depends_on 'pygments' => :build
 
   #def self.patch
-    # There are alot of patches to grab here ~ They've all come from Void-Packages (xbps-src)
+    # There are a lot of patches to grab here ~ They've all come from Void-Packages (xbps-src)
     #puts
     #puts 'Grabbing patches'.lightblue
     #system 'curl --ssl -L -o "output-reproducible.patch" "https://git.io/JUlWD" --progress-bar'
diff --git a/packages/nping.rb b/packages/nping.rb
index ec726dd5b..50f7c4e6d 100644
--- a/packages/nping.rb
+++ b/packages/nping.rb
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ class Nping < Package
     #without-zenmap in configure removes openssl dependency
     system "./configure --without-zenmap --prefix=#{CREW_PREFIX}"
 
-    # Make files in the project dont have the right dependencies to build this by itself
-    # so just make the whole thing and then install nping - not effecient, but
+    # Make files in the project don't have the right dependencies to build this by itself
+    # so just make the whole thing and then install nping - not efficient, but
     # more likely to work than a bunch of Makefile dependency edits
     system "make"
   end
diff --git a/packages/perl_file_tail.rb b/packages/perl_file_tail.rb
index 3fdefc8c7..fe2560d32 100644
--- a/packages/perl_file_tail.rb
+++ b/packages/perl_file_tail.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require 'package'
 
 class Perl_file_tail < Package
-  description 'Perl extension for reading from continously updated files'
+  description 'Perl extension for reading from continuously updated files'
   homepage 'https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Tail'
   version '1.3'
   license 'GPL-1+ or Artistic'
diff --git a/packages/xfce4_terminal.rb b/packages/xfce4_terminal.rb
index 0149943dd..57edff906 100644
--- a/packages/xfce4_terminal.rb
+++ b/packages/xfce4_terminal.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require 'package'
 
 class Xfce4_terminal < Package
-  description 'Modern terminal emulator primarly for the Xfce desktop environment'
+  description 'Modern terminal emulator primarily for the Xfce desktop environment'
   homepage 'https://xfce.org/'
   version '0.8.10'
   license 'GPL-2+'
diff --git a/tools/check.rb b/tools/check.rb
index dfd5a84ac..a0c49d647 100644
--- a/tools/check.rb
+++ b/tools/check.rb
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ task :nano do
 	:rest     => "| sort -t. -k 1,1nr -k 2,2nr -k 3,3nr -k 4,4nr | head -1"
 end
 
-desc "Check for new verison of ncdu"
+desc "Check for new version of ncdu"
 task :ncdu do
   check_version :pkg_name => "ncdu",
 	:url      => "https://dev.yorhel.nl/download/",
diff --git a/tools/licenses.txt b/tools/licenses.txt
index 8834d5366..6b71b36e1 100644
--- a/tools/licenses.txt
+++ b/tools/licenses.txt
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ wxWinLL-3
 ZLIB
 ZPL
 
-# Licenses that match the definiton of free software as set by the FSF, but are neither approved by the FSF or OSI
+# Licenses that match the definition of free software as set by the FSF, but are neither approved by the FSF or OSI
 AIFFWriter.m
 Allegro
 alternate