Fix misspelling errors and typos reported by codespell

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@@ -47,10 +47,11 @@
    the other hand oldest one is known not to work. Everything between
    falls into best-effort category.
 
- - Netwide Assembler, a.k.a. NASM, available from http://www.nasm.us,
-   is required if you intend to utilize assembler modules. Note that NASM
-   is the only supported assembler. The Microsoft provided assembler is NOT
-   supported.
+ - Netwide Assembler, a.k.a. NASM, available from https://www.nasm.us,
+   is required. Note that NASM is the only supported assembler. Even
+   though Microsoft provided assembler is NOT supported, contemporary
+   64-bit version is exercised through continuous integration of
+   VC-WIN64A-masm target.
 
 
  Installation directories
@@ -108,6 +109,21 @@
    This naturally implies that you've installed corresponding add-on
    packages.
 
+ Independently of the method chosen to build for mingw, the installation
+ paths are similar to those used when building with VC-* targets, except
+ that in case the fallbacks mentioned there aren't possible (typically
+ when cross compiling on Linux), the paths will be the following:
+
+ For mingw:
+
+     PREFIX:      C:/Program Files (x86)/OpenSSL
+     OPENSSLDIR   C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/SSL
+
+ For mingw64:
+
+     PREFIX:      C:/Program Files/OpenSSL
+     OPENSSLDIR   C:/Program Files/Common Files/SSL
+
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