diff --git a/docs/library/uio.rst b/docs/library/uio.rst
index 3529399324..1239c6394e 100644
--- a/docs/library/uio.rst
+++ b/docs/library/uio.rst
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ and made implicit to achieve higher efficiencies and save resources.
 An important dichotomy in CPython is unbuffered vs buffered streams. In
 MicroPython, all streams are currently unbuffered. This is because all
 modern OSes, and even many RTOSes and filesystem drivers already perform
-buffering on their side. Adding another later of buffering is counter-
-productive (an issue known as "bufferbloat") and spends precious memory.
+buffering on their side. Adding another layer of buffering is counter-
+productive (an issue known as "bufferbloat") and takes precious memory.
 Note that there still cases where buffering may be useful, so we may
 introduce optional buffering support at a later time.
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ it's whether a stream may incur short read/writes or not. A short read
 is when a user asks e.g. 10 bytes from a stream, but gets less, similarly
 for writes. In CPython, unbuffered streams are automatically short
 operation susceptible, while buffered are guarantee against them. The
-no short read/writes is an important traits, as it allows to develop
+no short read/writes is an important trait, as it allows to develop
 more concise and efficient programs - something which is highly desirable
 for MicroPython. So, while MicroPython doesn't support buffered streams,
 it still provides for no-short-operations streams. Whether there will
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ be a port-specific class, where such a need is governed by hardware
 peculiarities.
 
 The no-short-operations behavior gets tricky in case of non-blocking
-streams, blockedness vs non-blockedness being another CPython dichotomy,
+streams, blocking vs non-blocking behavior being another CPython dichotomy,
 fully supported by MicroPython. Non-blocking streams never wait for
 data either to arrive or be written - they read/write whatever possible,
 or signal lack of data (or ability to write data). Clearly, this conflicts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ buffered (and this no-short-ops) streams is convoluted in CPython - in
 some places, such combination is prohibited, in some it's undefined or
 just not documented, in some cases it raises verbose exceptions. The
 matter is much simpler in MicroPython: non-blocking stream are important
-for efficient asynchronuous operations, so this property prevails on
+for efficient asynchronous operations, so this property prevails on
 the "no-short-ops" one. So, while blocking streams will avoid short
 reads/writes whenever possible (the only case to get a short read is
 if end of file is reached, or in case of error (but errors don't