spelling corrections

* maintainance -> maintenance

* recieving -> receiving

diff --git a/maint/README b/maint/README
index 9a9122b3b0f20b822157fe786c8f90a0a4d250b9..2ea722be39f1a7079f3272479d07db01df88c0de 100644 (file)
--- a/maint/README
+++ b/maint/README
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 This directory contains tools and scripts that are used in the development
-and maintainance of Tornado itself, but are probably not of interest to
+and maintenance of Tornado itself, but are probably not of interest to
 Tornado users.

diff --git a/tornado/http1connection.py b/tornado/http1connection.py
index 11a32402cda2ddb4b107fa1f21e44ac2ad4f0afe..9b40fd6539b7cd27a05166d97082a54a78672ef9 100644 (file)
--- a/tornado/http1connection.py
+++ b/tornado/http1connection.py
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ class HTTP1Connection(httputil.HTTPConnection):
         Note that this callback is slightly different from
         `.HTTPMessageDelegate.on_connection_close`: The
         `.HTTPMessageDelegate` method is called when the connection is
-        closed while recieving a message. This callback is used when
+        closed while receiving a message. This callback is used when
         there is not an active delegate (for example, on the server
         side this callback is used if the client closes the connection
         after sending its request but before receiving all the