DOC: fix typos in User Guide

doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst

@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ For instance:
 This method does not convert the row to a Series object; it merely
 returns the values inside a namedtuple. Therefore,
 :meth:`~DataFrame.itertuples` preserves the data type of the values
-and is generally faster as :meth:`~DataFrame.iterrows`.
+and is generally faster than :meth:`~DataFrame.iterrows`.
 
 .. note::
 

doc/source/user_guide/io.rst

@@ -3003,7 +3003,7 @@ However, if XPath does not reference node names such as default, ``/*``, then
 .. note::
 
    Since ``xpath`` identifies the parent of content to be parsed, only immediate
-   desendants which include child nodes or current attributes are parsed.
+   descendants which include child nodes or current attributes are parsed.
    Therefore, ``read_xml`` will not parse the text of grandchildren or other
    descendants and will not parse attributes of any descendant. To retrieve
    lower level content, adjust xpath to lower level. For example,
@@ -3535,7 +3535,7 @@ For example, to read in a ``MultiIndex`` index without names:
    df = pd.read_excel("path_to_file.xlsx", index_col=[0, 1])
    df
 
-If the index has level names, they will parsed as well, using the same
+If the index has level names, they will be parsed as well, using the same
 parameters.
 
 .. ipython:: python
@@ -5847,10 +5847,10 @@ You can check if a table exists using :func:`~pandas.io.sql.has_table`
 Schema support
 ''''''''''''''
 
-Reading from and writing to different schema's is supported through the ``schema``
+Reading from and writing to different schemas is supported through the ``schema``
 keyword in the :func:`~pandas.read_sql_table` and :func:`~pandas.DataFrame.to_sql`
 functions. Note however that this depends on the database flavor (sqlite does not
-have schema's). For example:
+have schemas). For example:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 

doc/source/user_guide/missing_data.rst

@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Missing values propagate through arithmetic operations between pandas objects.
 
 The descriptive statistics and computational methods discussed in the
 :ref:`data structure overview <basics.stats>` (and listed :ref:`here
-<api.series.stats>` and :ref:`here <api.dataframe.stats>`) are all
+<api.series.stats>` and :ref:`here <api.dataframe.stats>`) all
 account for missing data.
 
 When summing data, NA values or empty data will be treated as zero.

doc/source/user_guide/options.rst

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Options and settings
 
 Overview
 --------
-pandas has an options API configure and customize global behavior related to
+pandas has an options API to configure and customize global behavior related to
 :class:`DataFrame` display, data behavior and more.
 
 Options have a full "dotted-style", case-insensitive name (e.g. ``display.max_rows``).

doc/source/user_guide/timeseries.rst

@@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ or some other non-observed day.  Defined observance rules are:
     "after_nearest_workday", "apply ``nearest_workday`` and then move to next workday after that day"
     "sunday_to_monday", "move Sunday to following Monday"
     "next_monday_or_tuesday", "move Saturday to Monday and Sunday/Monday to Tuesday"
-    "previous_friday", move Saturday and Sunday to previous Friday"
+    "previous_friday", "move Saturday and Sunday to previous Friday"
     "next_monday", "move Saturday and Sunday to following Monday"
     "weekend_to_monday", "same as ``next_monday``"