typo and grammar fixes

Author: lorensr

doc/en/core/semicolon.md

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Below is the result of the parser's "guessing" game.
     })(window); //<- inserted
 
 > **Note:** The JavaScript parser does not "correctly" handle return statements 
-> which are followed by a new line, while this is not neccessarily the fault of 
+> which are followed by a new line, while this is not necessarily the fault of 
 > the automatic semicolon insertion, it can still be an unwanted side-effect. 
 
 The parser drastically changed the behavior of the code above, in certain cases

doc/en/core/undefined.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Some examples for when the value `undefined` is returned:
  - Implicit returns of functions due to missing `return` statements.
  - `return` statements which do not explicitly return anything.
  - Lookups of non-existent properties.
- - Function parameters which do not had any explicit value passed.
+ - Function parameters that do not have any explicit value passed.
  - Anything that has been set to the value of `undefined`.
 
 ### Handling Changes to the Value of `undefined`

doc/en/function/arguments.md

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ more than a simple access to the `arguments` object's properties.
 
 > **ES5 Note:** These *getters* and *setters* are not created in strict mode.
 
-However, there is one case which will drastically reduce the performance in
+However, there is one case that will drastically reduce the performance in
 modern JavaScript engines. That case is the use of `arguments.callee`.
 
     function foo() {

doc/en/function/closures.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ override - the *global* variable `count`.
 
 ### Closures Inside Loops
 
-One often made mistake is to use closures inside of loops, as if they were
+One mistake made frequently is to use closures inside of loops, as if they were
 copying the value of the loops index variable.
 
     for(var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ The anonymous function that gets passed to `setTimeout` now has a reference to
 `e`, whose value does **not** get changed by the loop.
 
 There is another possible way of achieving this; that is to return a function 
-from the anonymous wrapper, that will then have the same behavior as the code 
+from the anonymous wrapper, which will then have the same behavior as the code 
 above.
 
     for(var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {

doc/en/function/constructors.md

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ not using the `new` keyword.
 
 ### Creating New Objects via Factories
 
-An often made recommendation is to **not** use `new` since forgetting its use
+A recommendation frequently made is to **not** use `new` since forgetting its use
 may lead to bugs.
 
 In order to create new object, one should rather use a factory and construct a 

doc/en/function/scopes.md

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ unless the *desired effect* is to affect the outer scope.
 
 ### Local Variables
 
-The only source for local variables in JavaScript are
+The only sources of local variables in JavaScript are
 [function](#function.general) parameters and variables that were declared via the 
 `var` statement.
 
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ moved to the top of the *global scope*.
 All scopes in JavaScript, including the *global scope*, have the special name 
 [`this`](#function.this) defined in them, which refers to the *current object*. 
 
-Function scopes also have the name [`arguments`](#function.arguments) defined in
-them which contains the arguments that were passed to a function.
+Function scopes also have the variable [`arguments`](#function.arguments) defined in
+them. [`arguments`](#function.arguments) contains the arguments that were passed to a function.
 
 For example, when trying to access a variable named `foo` inside the scope of a 
 function, JavaScript will lookup the name in the following order:

doc/en/intro/index.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## Intro
 
-**JavaScript Garden** is a growing collection of documentation about the most 
-quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to 
+**JavaScript Garden** is a growing collection of documentation about the  
+quirkiest parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to 
 avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad 
 practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their 
 endeavours into the depths of the language.

doc/en/object/forinloop.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ chain when iterating over the properties of an object.
     }
 
 Since it is not possible to change the behavior of the `for in` loop itself, it
-is necessary to filter out the unwanted properties inside the loop body , 
+is necessary to filter out the unwanted properties inside the loop body, 
 this is done by using the [`hasOwnProperty`](#object.hasownproperty) method of 
 `Object.prototype`.
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ will **only** print out `moo`. When `hasOwnProperty` is left out, the code is
 prone to errors in cases where the native prototypes - e.g. `Object.prototype` - 
 have been extended.
 
-One widely used framework which does this is [Prototype][1]. When this 
+One widely used framework that does this is [Prototype][1]. When this 
 framework is included, `for in` loops that do not use `hasOwnProperty` are 
 guaranteed to break.
 

doc/en/object/prototype.md

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ the features of newer JavaScript engines; for example,
 ### In Conclusion
 
 It is a **must** to understand the prototypal inheritance model completely 
-before writing complex code which makes use of it. Also, watch the length of 
+before writing complex code that makes use of it. Also, watch the length of 
 the prototype chains and break them up if necessary to avoid possible 
 performance issues. Further, the native prototypes should **never** be extended 
 unless it is for the sake of compatibility with newer JavaScript features.

doc/en/other/timeouts.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ gets executed might block the thread, it is by **no means** a safe bet that one
 will get the exact delay that was specified in the `setTimeout` call.
 
 The function that was passed as the first parameter will get called by the
-*global object*, that means, that [`this`](#function.this) inside the called function 
+*global object*, which means that [`this`](#function.this) inside the called function 
 refers to that very object.
 
     function Foo() {
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ it waiting for execution.
 
 ### Dealing with Possible Blocking Code
 
-The easiest as well as most controllable solution, is to use `setTimeout` within
+The easiest as well as most controllable solution is to use `setTimeout` within
 the function itself.
 
     function foo(){

doc/en/types/casting.md

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The best option is to cast to one of the three possible types **explicitly**.
 
     '' + 10 === '10'; // true
 
-By prepending a empty string a value can easily be casted to a string.
+By prepending an empty string a value can easily be casted to a string.
 
 ### Casting to a Number
 

doc/en/types/typeof.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ practical use case, which does **not** happen to be checking the type of an
 object. 
 
 > **Note:** While `typeof` can also be called with a function like syntax
-> i.e. `typeof(obj)`, this is not a function call. The two parenthesis will
+> i.e. `typeof(obj)`, this is not a function call. The two parentheses will
 > behave like normal and the return value will be used as the operand of the
 > `typeof` operator. There is **no** `typeof` function.
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ object.
     {}                  Object     object
     new Object()        Object     object
 
-In the above table *Type* refers to the value, that the `typeof` operator returns.
+In the above table *Type* refers to the value that the `typeof` operator returns.
 As can be clearly seen, this value is anything but consistent.
 
 The *Class* refers to the value of the internal `[[Class]]` property of an object.