diff --git a/doc/articles/error_handling.html b/doc/articles/error_handling.html
index b9393a2cbaf..ac33f1dabcc 100644
--- a/doc/articles/error_handling.html
+++ b/doc/articles/error_handling.html
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ the user is an administrator,
 <li>write a constructor function for <code>appError</code> that stores the
 stack trace for easier debugging, 
 <li>recover from panics inside the <code>appHandler</code>, logging the error
-to the console as "Critical," while simply telling the user "a serious error
+to the console as "Critical," while telling the user "a serious error
 has occurred." This is a nice touch to avoid exposing the user to inscrutable
 error messages caused by programming errors.
 See the <a href="defer_panic_recover.html">Defer, Panic, and Recover</a>
diff --git a/doc/articles/error_handling.tmpl b/doc/articles/error_handling.tmpl
index 141b4a54dd1..56b7fb309d4 100644
--- a/doc/articles/error_handling.tmpl
+++ b/doc/articles/error_handling.tmpl
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ the user is an administrator,
 <li>write a constructor function for <code>appError</code> that stores the
 stack trace for easier debugging, 
 <li>recover from panics inside the <code>appHandler</code>, logging the error
-to the console as "Critical," while simply telling the user "a serious error
+to the console as "Critical," while telling the user "a serious error
 has occurred." This is a nice touch to avoid exposing the user to inscrutable
 error messages caused by programming errors.
 See the <a href="defer_panic_recover.html">Defer, Panic, and Recover</a>
diff --git a/doc/devel/weekly.html b/doc/devel/weekly.html
index 34c0a712803..16dd6a3294d 100644
--- a/doc/devel/weekly.html
+++ b/doc/devel/weekly.html
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ The Dump* and NewChunked* functions and ClientConn, ServerConn, and
 ReverseProxy types have been moved from http to httputil.
 
 The API for html/template is now a direct copy of the template API, instead of
-exposing a single Escape function. For HTML templates, simply use the
+exposing a single Escape function. For HTML templates, use the
 html/template package as you would the template package.
 
 Other changes:
diff --git a/doc/gccgo_install.html b/doc/gccgo_install.html
index 1aaf64e54e0..085a305432b 100644
--- a/doc/gccgo_install.html
+++ b/doc/gccgo_install.html
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The name of Go functions accessed from C is subject to change. At present
 the name of a Go function that does not have a receiver is
 <code>prefix.package.Functionname</code>. The prefix is set by
 the <code>-fgo-prefix</code> option used when the package is compiled;
-if the option is not used, the default is simply <code>go</code>.
+if the option is not used, the default is <code>go</code>.
 To call the function from C you must set the name using
 a <code>gcc</code> extension similar to the <code>gccgo</code>
 extension.
diff --git a/src/pkg/crypto/cipher/io.go b/src/pkg/crypto/cipher/io.go
index 9888c9806f3..76048fbf339 100644
--- a/src/pkg/crypto/cipher/io.go
+++ b/src/pkg/crypto/cipher/io.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import "io"
 // The Stream* objects are so simple that all their members are public. Users
 // can create them themselves.
 
-// StreamReader wraps a Stream into an io.Reader. It simply calls XORKeyStream
+// StreamReader wraps a Stream into an io.Reader. It calls XORKeyStream
 // to process each slice of data which passes through.
 type StreamReader struct {
 	S Stream
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func (r StreamReader) Read(dst []byte) (n int, err error) {
 	return
 }
 
-// StreamWriter wraps a Stream into an io.Writer. It simply calls XORKeyStream
+// StreamWriter wraps a Stream into an io.Writer. It calls XORKeyStream
 // to process each slice of data which passes through. If any Write call
 // returns short then the StreamWriter is out of sync and must be discarded.
 type StreamWriter struct {
diff --git a/src/pkg/database/sql/driver/driver.go b/src/pkg/database/sql/driver/driver.go
index 0cd2562d682..b9300776050 100644
--- a/src/pkg/database/sql/driver/driver.go
+++ b/src/pkg/database/sql/driver/driver.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // Package driver defines interfaces to be implemented by database
 // drivers as used by package sql.
 //
-// Code simply using databases should use package sql.
+// Most code should use package sql.
 //
 // Drivers only need to be aware of a subset of Go's types.  The sql package
 // will convert all types into one of the following:
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go b/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go
index fb28c8caf53..c5c7d3fdb10 100644
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go
+++ b/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ func (dec *Decoder) nextUint() uint64 {
 // and returns the type id of the next value.  It returns -1 at
 // EOF.  Upon return, the remainder of dec.buf is the value to be
 // decoded.  If this is an interface value, it can be ignored by
-// simply resetting that buffer.
+// resetting that buffer.
 func (dec *Decoder) decodeTypeSequence(isInterface bool) typeId {
 	for dec.err == nil {
 		if dec.buf.Len() == 0 {
diff --git a/src/pkg/expvar/expvar.go b/src/pkg/expvar/expvar.go
index 0ccfb34328d..1919296ea8f 100644
--- a/src/pkg/expvar/expvar.go
+++ b/src/pkg/expvar/expvar.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 //
 // The package is sometimes only imported for the side effect of
 // registering its HTTP handler and the above variables.  To use it
-// this way, simply link this package into your program:
+// this way, link this package into your program:
 //	import _ "expvar"
 //
 package expvar
diff --git a/src/pkg/text/tabwriter/tabwriter.go b/src/pkg/text/tabwriter/tabwriter.go
index 201a685c630..ea7c4008111 100644
--- a/src/pkg/text/tabwriter/tabwriter.go
+++ b/src/pkg/text/tabwriter/tabwriter.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ type cell struct {
 // this flag.
 //
 // If a Writer is configured to filter HTML, HTML tags and entities
-// are simply passed through. The widths of tags and entities are
+// are passed through. The widths of tags and entities are
 // assumed to be zero (tags) and one (entities) for formatting purposes.
 //
 // A segment of text may be escaped by bracketing it with Escape
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ func handlePanic(err *error) {
 
 // Flush should be called after the last call to Write to ensure
 // that any data buffered in the Writer is written to output. Any
-// incomplete escape sequence at the end is simply considered
+// incomplete escape sequence at the end is considered
 // complete for formatting purposes.
 //
 func (b *Writer) Flush() (err error) {