diff --git a/src/doc/book/crates-and-modules.md b/src/doc/book/crates-and-modules.md
index b3ccefe0a6b43..43ac30c35c6c6 100644
--- a/src/doc/book/crates-and-modules.md
+++ b/src/doc/book/crates-and-modules.md
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ $ ls target/debug
 build  deps  examples  libphrases-a7448e02a0468eaa.rlib  native
 ```
 
-`libphrases-hash.rlib` is the compiled crate. Before we see how to use this
+`libphrases-<hash>.rlib` is the compiled crate. Before we see how to use this
 crate from another crate, let’s break it up into multiple files.
 
 # Multiple File Crates
diff --git a/src/doc/book/error-handling.md b/src/doc/book/error-handling.md
index a10e98fac7adf..c914c33a5a4b9 100644
--- a/src/doc/book/error-handling.md
+++ b/src/doc/book/error-handling.md
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ sense to put it into a function:
 ```rust
 # fn find(_: &str, _: char) -> Option<usize> { None }
 // Returns the extension of the given file name, where the extension is defined
-// as all characters proceeding the first `.`.
+// as all characters following the first `.`.
 // If `file_name` has no `.`, then `None` is returned.
 fn extension_explicit(file_name: &str) -> Option<&str> {
     match find(file_name, '.') {
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ to get rid of the case analysis:
 ```rust
 # fn find(_: &str, _: char) -> Option<usize> { None }
 // Returns the extension of the given file name, where the extension is defined
-// as all characters proceeding the first `.`.
+// as all characters following the first `.`.
 // If `file_name` has no `.`, then `None` is returned.
 fn extension(file_name: &str) -> Option<&str> {
     find(file_name, '.').map(|i| &file_name[i+1..])
diff --git a/src/doc/book/testing.md b/src/doc/book/testing.md
index 59d07e4f81c6e..4ea114c4bee68 100644
--- a/src/doc/book/testing.md
+++ b/src/doc/book/testing.md
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ fn it_works() {
 ```
 
 `assert!` is a macro provided by Rust which takes one argument: if the argument
-is `true`, nothing happens. If the argument is `false`, it `panic!`s. Let's run
-our tests again:
+is `true`, nothing happens. If the argument is `false`, it will `panic!`. Let's
+run our tests again:
 
 ```bash
 $ cargo test