diff --git a/zmconfig.pl.in b/zmconfig.pl.in
index d7d575558..3b25b5838 100755
--- a/zmconfig.pl.in
+++ b/zmconfig.pl.in
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ my @options =
 		name => "ZM_DIR_SOUNDS",
 		default => "sounds",
 		description => "Directory to the sounds that the ZoneMinder client can use",
-		help => "ZoneMinder generates a myriad of images, mosty of which are associated with events. For those that aren't this is where they go.",
+		help => "ZoneMinder can optionally play a sound file when an alarm is detected. This indicates where (relative to the web root) to look for this file.",
 		type => $types{directory},
 		category => 'paths',
 	},
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ my @options =
 		name => "ZM_LOCAL_BGR_INVERT",
 		default => "yes",
 		description => "Invert BGR colours to RGB",
-		help => "Some cameras or video cards capture images in BGR (Blue-Green-Red) order even when the paletter says RGB. If you see strange colours casts on your images then it may be worth trying this option to see if that corrects the issue. Note this option will apply only to local cameras and not those over a network.",
+		help => "Some cameras or video cards capture images in BGR (Blue-Green-Red) order even when the palette says RGB. If you see strange colours casts on your images then it may be worth trying this option to see if that corrects the issue. Note this option will apply only to local cameras and not those over a network.",
 		type => $types{boolean},
 		category => 'video',
 	},
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ my @options =
 		name => "ZM_COLOUR_JPEG_FILES",
 		default => "yes",
 		description => "Colourise greyscale JPEG files",
-		help => "Cameras that capture in greyscale can write their captured images to jpeg files with a corresponding greyscale colour space. This saves a small amount of disk space over colour ones. However some tools such as ffmpeg and mpeg_encode either fail to work with this colour space or have to convert it beforehand. Setting this option to yes uses up a little more space but makes creation of MPGE files much faster.",
+		help => "Cameras that capture in greyscale can write their captured images to jpeg files with a corresponding greyscale colour space. This saves a small amount of disk space over colour ones. However some tools such as ffmpeg and mpeg_encode either fail to work with this colour space or have to convert it beforehand. Setting this option to yes uses up a little more space but makes creation of MPEG files much faster.",
 		type => $types{boolean},
 		category => 'video',
 	},
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ my @options =
 		default => "no",
 		description => "Should analysis farm out the writing of images to disk",
 		#requires => [ { name => "ZM_OPT_ADAPTIVE_SKIP", value => "yes" } ],
-		help => "In some circumstances it is possible for a slow disk to take so long writing images to disk that it causes the analysis daemon to fall behind especially during hig frame rate events. Setting this option to yes enables a frame server daemon (zmf) which will be sent the images from the analysis daemon and will do the actual writing of images itself freeing up the analysis daemon to get on with other things. Should this transmission fail or other permanent or transient error occur, this function will fall back to the analysis daemon.",
+		help => "In some circumstances it is possible for a slow disk to take so long writing images to disk that it causes the analysis daemon to fall behind especially during high frame rate events. Setting this option to yes enables a frame server daemon (zmf) which will be sent the images from the analysis daemon and will do the actual writing of images itself freeing up the analysis daemon to get on with other things. Should this transmission fail or other permanent or transient error occur, this function will fall back to the analysis daemon.",
 		type => $types{boolean},
 		category => 'video',
 	},