diff --git a/keystoneclient/middleware/auth_token.py b/keystoneclient/middleware/auth_token.py
index 332f8ac58..327f9d671 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/middleware/auth_token.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/middleware/auth_token.py
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ class AuthProtocol(object):
 
         # Token caching via memcache
         self._cache = None
-        self._cache_initialized = False    # cache already initialzied?
+        self._cache_initialized = False    # cache already initialized?
         # memcache value treatment, ENCRYPT or MAC
         self._memcache_security_strategy = \
             self._conf_get('memcache_security_strategy')
diff --git a/keystoneclient/shell.py b/keystoneclient/shell.py
index c3a709f14..2af23a5cc 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/shell.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/shell.py
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ class OpenStackIdentityShell(object):
 
     def _find_actions(self, subparsers, actions_module):
         for attr in (a for a in dir(actions_module) if a.startswith('do_')):
-            # I prefer to be hypen-separated instead of underscores.
+            # I prefer to be hyphen-separated instead of underscores.
             command = attr[3:].replace('_', '-')
             callback = getattr(actions_module, attr)
             desc = callback.__doc__ or ''
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class OpenStackIdentityShell(object):
                             args.os_password = getpass.getpass('OS Password: ')
                         except EOFError:
                             pass
-                    # No password because we did't have a tty or the
+                    # No password because we didn't have a tty or the
                     # user Ctl-D when prompted?
                     if not args.os_password:
                         raise exc.CommandError(
diff --git a/keystoneclient/utils.py b/keystoneclient/utils.py
index 6902ed301..e3a8466e3 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/utils.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/utils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from keystoneclient import exceptions
 # Decorator for cli-args
 def arg(*args, **kwargs):
     def _decorator(func):
-        # Because of the sematics of decorator composition if we just append
+        # Because of the semantics of decorator composition if we just append
         # to the options list positional options will appear to be backwards.
         func.__dict__.setdefault('arguments', []).insert(0, (args, kwargs))
         return func