changeset 16358:a712776b11ce

maint: spelling fixes
author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:42:03 -0800
parents fb977cbd79e9
children 88cfbe84bd1b
files NEWS build-aux/update-copyright doc/gnulib.texi doc/intprops.texi doc/pastposix-functions/usleep.texi doc/posix-headers/stdbool.texi doc/regex.texi gnulib-tool lib/argp-help.c lib/argp-parse.c lib/argp-version-etc.h lib/argp.h lib/at-func.c lib/c-stack.c lib/c-strstr.h lib/c-strtod.h lib/des.c lib/diacrit.c lib/expl.c lib/fnmatch.c lib/fnmatch_loop.c lib/fts.c lib/gen-uni-tables.c lib/git-merge-changelog.c lib/gl_anyrbtree_list1.h lib/gl_rbtree_oset.c lib/iconv_open.c lib/mbiter.h lib/mbuiter.h lib/memchr2.c lib/mkdir-p.c lib/obstack.h lib/parse-datetime.y lib/parse-duration.h lib/pipe-filter-ii.c lib/pipe-filter.h lib/poll.in.h lib/popen.c lib/readtokens.c lib/regcomp.c lib/regex.c lib/regex_internal.c lib/regexec.c lib/search.in.h lib/sleep.c lib/strftime.c lib/sys_socket.in.h lib/trigl.c lib/vasnprintf.c lib/version-etc.h lib/w32sock.h m4/exponentd.m4 m4/locale-ar.m4 m4/locale-fr.m4 m4/locale-ja.m4 m4/locale-tr.m4 m4/locale-zh.m4 m4/po.m4 m4/readline.m4 m4/sig_atomic_t.m4 m4/vasnprintf.m4 tests/test-closein.sh tests/test-lock.c tests/test-strerror.c tests/test-tsearch.c tests/test-yesno.sh
diffstat 66 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-) [+]
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -543,12 +543,12 @@
                             <unistd.h>.
 
 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
-                            was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
+                            was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
                             renamed:
                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
 
 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
-                            was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
+                            was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
                             macros were renamed:
                               allocsa -> malloca
                               freesa -> freea
--- a/build-aux/update-copyright
+++ b/build-aux/update-copyright
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     if 0;
 # Update an FSF copyright year list to include the current year.
 
-my $VERSION = '2012-01-27.09:18'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2012-02-05.21:39'; # UTC
 
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 # The arguments to this script should be names of files that contain
 # copyright statements to be updated.  The copyright holder's name
-# defaults to "Free Softward Foundation, Inc." but may be changed to
+# defaults to "Free Software Foundation, Inc." but may be changed to
 # any other name by using the "UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_HOLDER" environment
 # variable.
 #
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 # A warning is printed for every file for which no copyright
 # statement is recognized.
 #
-# Each file's copyright statement must be formated correctly in
+# Each file's copyright statement must be formatted correctly in
 # order to be recognized.  For example, each of these is fine:
 #
 #   Copyright @copyright{} 1990-2005, 2007-2009 Free Software
--- a/doc/gnulib.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib.texi
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 @node Introduction
 @chapter Introduction
 
-Gnulib is a source code library. It provides basic functionalities to
+Gnulib is a source code library. It provides basic functionality to
 programs and libraries.  Currently (as of October 2006) more than 30
 packages make use of Gnulib.
 
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@
 @code{--avoid} or it is marked as obsolete and the option
 @code{--with-obsolete} is not given.
 
-A test modules @code{foo-tests} implicity depends on the corresponding non-test
+A test modules @code{foo-tests} implicitly depends on the corresponding non-test
 module @code{foo}.  @code{foo} implicitly depends on @code{foo-tests} if the
 latter exists and if the option @code{--with-tests} has been given.
 
--- a/doc/intprops.texi
+++ b/doc/intprops.texi
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
 These macros yield 1 if the corresponding C operators might not yield
 numerically correct answers due to arithmetic overflow.  They do not
 rely on undefined or implementation-defined behavior.  They expand to
-integer constant expresssions if their arguments are.  Their
+integer constant expressions if their arguments are.  Their
 implementations are simple and straightforward, but they are typically
 harder to use than the integer type overflow macros.  @xref{Integer
 Type Overflow}.
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
 numerically correct answers due to arithmetic overflow of an integer
 type.  They work correctly on all known practical hosts, and do not
 rely on undefined behavior due to signed arithmetic overflow.  They
-expand to integer constant expresssions if their arguments are.  They
+expand to integer constant expressions if their arguments are.  They
 are easier to use than the integer range overflow macros
 (@pxref{Integer Range Overflow}).
 
--- a/doc/pastposix-functions/usleep.texi
+++ b/doc/pastposix-functions/usleep.texi
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 mingw.
 @item
 This function is missing on some platforms.  However, the replacement
-is designed to be lightweight, and may round to the neareset second;
+is designed to be lightweight, and may round to the nearest second;
 use @code{select} or @code{nanosleep} if better resolution is needed:
 IRIX 5.3, Solaris 2.4, older mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
 @end itemize
--- a/doc/posix-headers/stdbool.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/stdbool.texi
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 @item
 Casts and automatic conversions to @samp{bool} don't test against the
 zero value or the null pointer, as they should.  Such casts should only
-be used if the casted value is known to be equal to 0 or 1.
+be used if the value is known to be equal to 0 or 1.
 @item
 You cannot assume that casting a floating point literal to @samp{bool} will
 result in a constant expression.
--- a/doc/regex.texi
+++ b/doc/regex.texi
@@ -1853,7 +1853,7 @@
 @node Using Registers
 @subsection Using Registers
 
-A group in a regular expression can match a (posssibly empty) substring
+A group in a regular expression can match a (possibly empty) substring
 of the string that regular expression as a whole matched.  The matcher
 remembers the beginning and end of the substring matched by
 each group.
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -5558,7 +5558,7 @@
   # its dependencies.
   saved_inctests="$inctests"
   # When computing transitive closures, don't consider $module to depend on
-  # $module-tests. Need this becauses tests are implicitly GPL and may depend
+  # $module-tests. Need this because tests are implicitly GPL and may depend
   # on GPL modules - therefore we don't want a warning in this case.
   inctests=""
   for requested_module in $specified_modules; do
--- a/lib/argp-help.c
+++ b/lib/argp-help.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Hierarchial argument parsing help output
+/* Hierarchical argument parsing help output
    Copyright (C) 1995-2005, 2007, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
   uparams.valid = 1;
 }
 
-/* Read user options from the environment, and fill in UPARAMS appropiately. */
+/* Read user options from the environment, and fill in UPARAMS appropriately. */
 static void
 fill_in_uparams (const struct argp_state *state)
 {
@@ -277,11 +277,11 @@
      -xARG, -yARG, --long1=ARG, --long2=ARG        Documentation...
 
    Where ARG will be omitted if there's no argument, for this option, or
-   will be surrounded by "[" and "]" appropiately if the argument is
-   optional.  The documentation string is word-wrapped appropiately, and if
+   will be surrounded by "[" and "]" appropriately if the argument is
+   optional.  The documentation string is word-wrapped appropriately, and if
    the list of options is long enough, it will be started on a separate line.
    If there are no short options for a given option, the first long option is
-   indented slighly in a way that's supposed to make most long options appear
+   indented slightly in a way that's supposed to make most long options appear
    to be in a separate column.
 
    For example, the following output (from ps):
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
   if (entry1->cluster != entry2->cluster)
     {
       /* The entries are not within the same cluster, so we can't compare them
-         directly, we have to use the appropiate clustering level too.  */
+         directly, we have to use the appropriate clustering level too.  */
       if (! entry1->cluster)
         /* ENTRY1 is at the "base level", not in a cluster, so we have to
            compare it's group number with that of the base cluster in which
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@
     return doc;
 }
 
-/* Prints STR as a header line, with the margin lines set appropiately, and
+/* Prints STR as a header line, with the margin lines set appropriately, and
    notes the fact that groups should be separated with a blank line.  ARGP is
    the argp that should dictate any user doc filtering to take place.  Note
    that the previous wrap margin isn't restored, but the left margin is reset
@@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@
 }
 
 /* Print the documentation for ARGP to STREAM; if POST is false, then
-   everything preceeding a '\v' character in the documentation strings (or
+   everything preceding a '\v' character in the documentation strings (or
    the whole string, for those with none) is printed, otherwise, everything
    following the '\v' character (nothing for strings without).  Each separate
    bit of documentation is separated a blank line, and if PRE_BLANK is true,
@@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@
 }
 
 /* Output a usage message for ARGP to STREAM.  If called from
-   argp_state_help, STATE is the relevent parsing state.  FLAGS are from the
+   argp_state_help, STATE is the relevant parsing state.  FLAGS are from the
    set ARGP_HELP_*.  NAME is what to use wherever a "program name" is
    needed. */
 static void
--- a/lib/argp-parse.c
+++ b/lib/argp-parse.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Hierarchial argument parsing, layered over getopt
+/* Hierarchical argument parsing, layered over getopt
    Copyright (C) 1995-2000, 2002-2004, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
      particular short options is from.  */
   char *short_end;
 
-  /* The number of non-option args sucessfully handled by this parser.  */
+  /* The number of non-option args successfully handled by this parser.  */
   unsigned args_processed;
 
   /* This group's parser's parent's group.  */
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
   return group;
 }
 
-/* Find the merged set of getopt options, with keys appropiately prefixed. */
+/* Find the merged set of getopt options, with keys appropriately prefixed. */
 static void
 parser_convert (struct parser *parser, const struct argp *argp, int flags)
 {
--- a/lib/argp-version-etc.h
+++ b/lib/argp-version-etc.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
    given.
 
    If NAME is NULL, the package name (as given by the PACKAGE macro)
-   is asumed to be the name of the program.
+   is assumed to be the name of the program.
 
    This function is intended to be called before argp_parse().
 */
--- a/lib/argp.h
+++ b/lib/argp.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Hierarchial argument parsing, layered over getopt.
+/* Hierarchical argument parsing, layered over getopt.
    Copyright (C) 1995-1999, 2003-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
 };
 
 /* Possible KEY arguments to a help filter function.  */
-#define ARGP_KEY_HELP_PRE_DOC   0x2000001 /* Help text preceeding options. */
+#define ARGP_KEY_HELP_PRE_DOC   0x2000001 /* Help text preceding options. */
 #define ARGP_KEY_HELP_POST_DOC  0x2000002 /* Help text following options. */
 #define ARGP_KEY_HELP_HEADER    0x2000003 /* Option header string. */
 #define ARGP_KEY_HELP_EXTRA     0x2000004 /* After all other documentation;
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
    parsing routine (thus taking an argp_state structure as the first
    argument).  They may or may not print an error message and exit, depending
    on the flags in STATE -- in any case, the caller should be prepared for
-   them *not* to exit, and should return an appropiate error after calling
+   them *not* to exit, and should return an appropriate error after calling
    them.  [argp_usage & argp_error should probably be called argp_state_...,
    but they're used often enough that they should be short]  */
 
--- a/lib/at-func.c
+++ b/lib/at-func.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 /* Call AT_FUNC_F1 to operate on FILE, which is in the directory
    open on descriptor FD.  If AT_FUNC_USE_F1_COND is defined to a value,
-   AT_FUNC_POST_FILE_PARAM_DECLS must inlude a parameter named flag;
+   AT_FUNC_POST_FILE_PARAM_DECLS must include a parameter named flag;
    call AT_FUNC_F2 if FLAG is 0 or fail if FLAG contains more bits than
    AT_FUNC_USE_F1_COND.  Return int and fail with -1 unless AT_FUNC_RESULT
    or AT_FUNC_FAIL are defined.  If possible, do it without changing the
--- a/lib/c-stack.c
+++ b/lib/c-stack.c
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 
      Note that although both Linux and Solaris provide
      sigaltstack, SA_ONSTACK, and SA_SIGINFO, currently only
-     Solaris satisfies the XSI heueristic.  This is because
+     Solaris satisfies the XSI heuristic.  This is because
      Solaris populates uc_stack with the details of the
      interrupted stack, while Linux populates it with the details
      of the current stack.  */
--- a/lib/c-strstr.h
+++ b/lib/c-strstr.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
         [this restriction is needed because of BIG5, BIG5-HKSCS, GBK, GB18030,
          Shift_JIS, JOHAB], and
      3. does not consist entirely of decimal digits, or has at least length 4
-        [this restricion is needed because of GB18030].
+        [this restriction is needed because of GB18030].
    This function is also safe to be called, even in a multibyte locale, if
    HAYSTACK and NEEDLE are known to both consist solely of printable ASCII
    characters excluding '\\' and '~'.  */
--- a/lib/c-strtod.h
+++ b/lib/c-strtod.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
    accepting only the ASCII digits '0'..'9', and only '.' as decimal point
    character.
    If ENDPTR is not NULL, set *ENDPTR to point to the first byte beyond the
-   parsed number or to NPTR if the string does not start with a parseable
+   parsed number or to NPTR if the string does not start with a parsable
    number.
    Return value:
    - If successful, return the value as a double or 'long double',
--- a/lib/des.c
+++ b/lib/des.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
  *     // Encrypt the plaintext
  *     des_ecb_encrypt(&context, plaintext, ciphertext);
  *
- *     // To recover the orginal plaintext from ciphertext use:
+ *     // To recover the original plaintext from ciphertext use:
  *     des_ecb_decrypt(&context, ciphertext, recoverd);
  *
  *
--- a/lib/diacrit.c
+++ b/lib/diacrit.c
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@
 
 /*------------------------------------------------------------------------.
 | For each alphabetic character, returns a code of what its diacritic is, |
-| according to the following codes: 1 (eE) over aA for latin diphtongs; 2 |
-| (') acute accent; 3 (`) grave accent; 4 (^) circumflex accent; 5 (")    |
-| umlaut or diaraesis; 6 (~) tilda; 7 (,) cedilla; 8 (o) covering degree  |
+| according to the following codes: 1 (eE) over aA for latin diphthongs;  |
+| 2 (') acute accent; 3 (`) grave accent; 4 (^) circumflex accent; 5 (")  |
+| umlaut or diaeresis; 6 (~) tilda; 7 (,) cedilla; 8 (o) covering degree  |
 | symbol; 9 (|) slashed character.                                        |
 `------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
--- a/lib/expl.c
+++ b/lib/expl.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 # include <float.h>
 
 static const long double C[] = {
-/* Chebyshev polynom coeficients for (exp(x)-1)/x */
+/* Chebyshev polynomial coefficients for (exp(x)-1)/x */
 # define P1 C[0]
 # define P2 C[1]
 # define P3 C[2]
--- a/lib/fnmatch.c
+++ b/lib/fnmatch.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
   (HAVE_WCTYPE_H && HAVE_BTOWC && HAVE_ISWCTYPE \
    && HAVE_WMEMCHR && (HAVE_WMEMCPY || HAVE_WMEMPCPY))
 
-/* For platform which support the ISO C amendement 1 functionality we
+/* For platform which support the ISO C amendment 1 functionality we
    support user defined character classes.  */
 #if defined _LIBC || WIDE_CHAR_SUPPORT
 # include <wctype.h>
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 
 # if defined _LIBC || WIDE_CHAR_SUPPORT
 /* The GNU C library provides support for user-defined character classes
-   and the functions from ISO C amendement 1.  */
+   and the functions from ISO C amendment 1.  */
 #  ifdef CHARCLASS_NAME_MAX
 #   define CHAR_CLASS_MAX_LENGTH CHARCLASS_NAME_MAX
 #  else
--- a/lib/fnmatch_loop.c
+++ b/lib/fnmatch_loop.c
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
                           {
                             /* We found a table entry.  Now see whether the
                                character we are currently at has the same
-                               equivalance class value.  */
+                               equivalence class value.  */
                             int len = weights[idx & 0xffffff];
                             int32_t idx2;
                             const UCHAR *np = (const UCHAR *) n;
--- a/lib/fts.c
+++ b/lib/fts.c
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@
 
   switch (fs_buf.f_type)
     {
-      /* List here the file system types that lack useable dirent.d_type
+      /* List here the file system types that lack usable dirent.d_type
          info, yet for which the optimization does apply.  */
     case S_MAGIC_REISERFS:
       return true;
--- a/lib/gen-uni-tables.c
+++ b/lib/gen-uni-tables.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
       exit (1);
     }
   if (strcmp (field2, "Cs") == 0)
-    /* Surrogates are UTF-16 artefacts, not real characters. Ignore them.  */
+    /* Surrogates are UTF-16 artifacts, not real characters. Ignore them.  */
     return;
   uni = &unicode_attributes[i];
   /* Copy the strings.  */
@@ -5698,7 +5698,7 @@
   fprintf (stream, "END LC_IDENTIFICATION\n");
   fprintf (stream, "\n");
 
-  /* Verifications. */
+  /* Verification. */
   for (ch = 0; ch < 0x110000; ch++)
     {
       /* toupper restriction: "Only characters specified for the keywords
--- a/lib/git-merge-changelog.c
+++ b/lib/git-merge-changelog.c
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@
   { NULL, 0, NULL, 0 }
 };
 
-/* Print a usage mesage and exit.  */
+/* Print a usage message and exit.  */
 static void
 usage (int status)
 {
--- a/lib/gl_anyrbtree_list1.h
+++ b/lib/gl_anyrbtree_list1.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
    Let's call this the "black-height" bh of the tree.  It follows that every
    such path contains exactly bh black and between 0 and bh red nodes.  (The
    extreme cases are a path containing only black nodes, and a path colored
-   alternatingly black-red-black-red-...-black-red.)  The height of the tree
+   alternately black-red-black-red-...-black-red.)  The height of the tree
    therefore is >= bh, <= 2*bh.
  */
 
--- a/lib/gl_rbtree_oset.c
+++ b/lib/gl_rbtree_oset.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
    Let's call this the "black-height" bh of the tree.  It follows that every
    such path contains exactly bh black and between 0 and bh red nodes.  (The
    extreme cases are a path containing only black nodes, and a path colored
-   alternatingly black-red-black-red-...-black-red.)  The height of the tree
+   alternately black-red-black-red-...-black-red.)  The height of the tree
    therefore is >= bh, <= 2*bh.
  */
 
--- a/lib/iconv_open.c
+++ b/lib/iconv_open.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
      iconv() to these encoding inserts a BOM, which is wrong.
      We do not need to handle conversion between arbitrary encodings and
      UTF-{16,32}{BE,LE}, because the 'striconveh' module implements two-step
-     conversion throough UTF-8.
+     conversion through UTF-8.
      The _ICONV_* constants are chosen to be disjoint from any iconv_t
      returned by the system's iconv_open() functions.  Recall that iconv_t
      is a scalar type.  */
--- a/lib/mbiter.h
+++ b/lib/mbiter.h
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@
      initializes the iterator, starting at startptr and crossing length bytes.
 
    mbi_avail (iter)
-     returns true if there are more multibyte chracters available before
+     returns true if there are more multibyte characters available before
      the end of string is reached. In this case, mbi_cur (iter) is
-     initialized to the next multibyte chracter.
+     initialized to the next multibyte character.
 
    mbi_advance (iter)
      advances the iterator by one multibyte character.
--- a/lib/mbuiter.h
+++ b/lib/mbuiter.h
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@
      initializes the iterator, starting at startptr.
 
    mbui_avail (iter)
-     returns true if there are more multibyte chracters available before
+     returns true if there are more multibyte characters available before
      the end of string is reached. In this case, mbui_cur (iter) is
-     initialized to the next multibyte chracter.
+     initialized to the next multibyte character.
 
    mbui_advance (iter)
      advances the iterator by one multibyte character.
--- a/lib/memchr2.c
+++ b/lib/memchr2.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
      significant bytes (positions j+1..3), but it does not matter since we
      already have a non-zero bit at position 8*j+7.
 
-     Similary, we compute tmp2 =
+     Similarly, we compute tmp2 =
        ((longword2 - repeated_one) & ~longword2) & (repeated_one << 7).
 
      The test whether any byte in longword1 or longword2 is zero is equivalent
--- a/lib/mkdir-p.c
+++ b/lib/mkdir-p.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
       if (0 <= prefix_len)
         {
           /* If the ownership might change, or if the directory will be
-             writeable to other users and its special mode bits may
+             writable to other users and its special mode bits may
              change after the directory is created, create it with
              more restrictive permissions at first, so unauthorized
              users cannot nip in before the directory is ready.  */
--- a/lib/obstack.h
+++ b/lib/obstack.h
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 
 #define __BPTR_ALIGN(B, P, A) ((B) + (((P) - (B) + (A)) & ~(A)))
 
-/* Similiar to _BPTR_ALIGN (B, P, A), except optimize the common case
+/* Similar to _BPTR_ALIGN (B, P, A), except optimize the common case
    where pointers can be converted to integers, aligned as integers,
    and converted back again.  If PTR_INT_TYPE is narrower than a
    pointer (e.g., the AS/400), play it safe and compute the alignment
--- a/lib/parse-datetime.y
+++ b/lib/parse-datetime.y
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
   size_t times_seen;
   size_t zones_seen;
 
-  /* Table of local time zone abbrevations, terminated by a null entry.  */
+  /* Table of local time zone abbreviations, terminated by a null entry.  */
   table local_time_zone_table[3];
 } parser_control;
 
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@
       && ! strcmp (pc.local_time_zone_table[0].name,
                    pc.local_time_zone_table[1].name))
     {
-      /* This locale uses the same abbrevation for standard and
+      /* This locale uses the same abbreviation for standard and
          daylight times.  So if we see that abbreviation, we don't
          know whether it's daylight time.  */
       pc.local_time_zone_table[0].value = -1;
--- a/lib/parse-duration.h
+++ b/lib/parse-duration.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
   the string may contain:  NNN Y NNN M NNN W NNN d NNN h NNN m NNN s
   This represents NNN years, NNN months, NNN weeks, NNN days, NNN hours,
     NNN minutes and NNN seconds.
-  The embeded white space is optional.
+  The embedded white space is optional.
   These terms must appear in this order.
   Case is significant:  'M' is months and 'm' is minutes.
   The final "s" is optional.
--- a/lib/pipe-filter-ii.c
+++ b/lib/pipe-filter-ii.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
             if (buf != NULL)
               {
                 /* Writing to a pipe in non-blocking mode is tricky: The
-                   write() call may fail with EAGAIN, simply because suffcient
+                   write() call may fail with EAGAIN, simply because sufficient
                    space is not available in the pipe. See POSIX:2008
                    <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/write.html>.
                    This happens actually on AIX and IRIX, when bufsize >= 8192
--- a/lib/pipe-filter.h
+++ b/lib/pipe-filter.h
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
    true, otherwise return 127.
    Callback arguments are as described above.
 
-   Data is alternatingly written to the subprocess, through the functions
+   Data is alternately written to the subprocess, through the functions
    prepare_write and done_write, and read from the subprocess, through the
    functions prepare_read and done_read.
 
--- a/lib/poll.in.h
+++ b/lib/poll.in.h
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 /* fake a poll(2) environment */
 # define POLLIN      0x0001      /* any readable data available   */
 # define POLLPRI     0x0002      /* OOB/Urgent readable data      */
-# define POLLOUT     0x0004      /* file descriptor is writeable  */
+# define POLLOUT     0x0004      /* file descriptor is writable   */
 # define POLLERR     0x0008      /* some poll error occurred      */
 # define POLLHUP     0x0010      /* file descriptor was "hung up" */
 # define POLLNVAL    0x0020      /* requested events "invalid"    */
--- a/lib/popen.c
+++ b/lib/popen.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
      the fd leaks into subsequent popen calls.  We could work around
      this by maintaining a list of all fd's opened by popen, and
      temporarily marking them cloexec around the real popen call, but
-     we would also have to override pclose, and the bookkeepping seems
+     we would also have to override pclose, and the bookkeeping seems
      extreme given that cygwin 1.7 no longer has the bug.  */
   FILE *result;
   int cloexec0 = fcntl (STDIN_FILENO, F_GETFD);
--- a/lib/readtokens.c
+++ b/lib/readtokens.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
    Written by Jim Meyering. */
 
-/* This almost supercedes xreadline stuff -- using delim="\n"
+/* This almost supersedes xreadline stuff -- using delim="\n"
    gives the same functionality, except that these functions
    would never return empty lines. */
 
--- a/lib/regcomp.c
+++ b/lib/regcomp.c
@@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@
 
 /* Entry point of the parser.
    Parse the regular expression REGEXP and return the structure tree.
-   If an error is occured, ERR is set by error code, and return NULL.
+   If an error occurs, ERR is set by error code, and return NULL.
    This function build the following tree, from regular expression <reg_exp>:
 	   CAT
 	   / \
@@ -2615,7 +2615,7 @@
      Build the range expression which starts from START_ELEM, and ends
      at END_ELEM.  The result are written to MBCSET and SBCSET.
      RANGE_ALLOC is the allocated size of mbcset->range_starts, and
-     mbcset->range_ends, is a pointer argument sinse we may
+     mbcset->range_ends, is a pointer argument since we may
      update it.  */
 
 static reg_errcode_t
@@ -2781,8 +2781,8 @@
   const int32_t *symb_table;
   const unsigned char *extra;
 
-  /* Local function for parse_bracket_exp used in _LIBC environement.
-     Seek the collating symbol entry correspondings to NAME.
+  /* Local function for parse_bracket_exp used in _LIBC environment.
+     Seek the collating symbol entry corresponding to NAME.
      Return the index of the symbol in the SYMB_TABLE.  */
 
   auto inline int32_t
@@ -2885,11 +2885,11 @@
       return UINT_MAX;
     }
 
-  /* Local function for parse_bracket_exp used in _LIBC environement.
+  /* Local function for parse_bracket_exp used in _LIBC environment.
      Build the range expression which starts from START_ELEM, and ends
      at END_ELEM.  The result are written to MBCSET and SBCSET.
      RANGE_ALLOC is the allocated size of mbcset->range_starts, and
-     mbcset->range_ends, is a pointer argument sinse we may
+     mbcset->range_ends, is a pointer argument since we may
      update it.  */
 
   auto inline reg_errcode_t
@@ -2969,11 +2969,11 @@
       return REG_NOERROR;
     }
 
-  /* Local function for parse_bracket_exp used in _LIBC environement.
+  /* Local function for parse_bracket_exp used in _LIBC environment.
      Build the collating element which is represented by NAME.
      The result are written to MBCSET and SBCSET.
      COLL_SYM_ALLOC is the allocated size of mbcset->coll_sym, is a
-     pointer argument sinse we may update it.  */
+     pointer argument since we may update it.  */
 
   auto inline reg_errcode_t
   __attribute ((always_inline))
@@ -3413,7 +3413,7 @@
      Build the equivalence class which is represented by NAME.
      The result are written to MBCSET and SBCSET.
      EQUIV_CLASS_ALLOC is the allocated size of mbcset->equiv_classes,
-     is a pointer argument sinse we may update it.  */
+     is a pointer argument since we may update it.  */
 
 static reg_errcode_t
 #ifdef RE_ENABLE_I18N
@@ -3449,7 +3449,7 @@
 	/* This isn't a valid character.  */
 	return REG_ECOLLATE;
 
-      /* Build single byte matcing table for this equivalence class.  */
+      /* Build single byte matching table for this equivalence class.  */
       char_buf[1] = (unsigned char) '\0';
       len = weights[idx1 & 0xffffff];
       for (ch = 0; ch < SBC_MAX; ++ch)
@@ -3509,7 +3509,7 @@
      Build the character class which is represented by NAME.
      The result are written to MBCSET and SBCSET.
      CHAR_CLASS_ALLOC is the allocated size of mbcset->char_classes,
-     is a pointer argument sinse we may update it.  */
+     is a pointer argument since we may update it.  */
 
 static reg_errcode_t
 #ifdef RE_ENABLE_I18N
--- a/lib/regex.c
+++ b/lib/regex.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 #include <config.h>
 
-/* Make sure noone compiles this code with a C++ compiler.  */
+/* Make sure no one compiles this code with a C++ compiler.  */
 #if defined __cplusplus && defined _LIBC
 # error "This is C code, use a C compiler"
 #endif
--- a/lib/regex_internal.c
+++ b/lib/regex_internal.c
@@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@
   re_free (state);
 }
 
-/* Create the new state which is independ of contexts.
+/* Create the new state which is independent of contexts.
    Return the new state if succeeded, otherwise return NULL.  */
 
 static re_dfastate_t *
--- a/lib/regexec.c
+++ b/lib/regexec.c
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@
 	    goto free_return;
 	}
 
-      /* At last, add the offset to the each registers, since we slided
+      /* At last, add the offset to each register, since we slid
 	 the buffers so that we could assume that the matching starts
 	 from 0.  */
       for (reg_idx = 0; reg_idx < nmatch; ++reg_idx)
@@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@
    FL_LONGEST_MATCH means we want the POSIX longest matching.
    If P_MATCH_FIRST is not NULL, and the match fails, it is set to the
    next place where we may want to try matching.
-   Note that the matcher assume that the maching starts from the current
+   Note that the matcher assumes that the matching starts from the current
    index of the buffer.  */
 
 static Idx
@@ -2456,7 +2456,7 @@
 /* From the node set CUR_NODES, pick up the nodes whose types are
    OP_OPEN_SUBEXP and which have corresponding back references in the regular
    expression. And register them to use them later for evaluating the
-   correspoding back references.  */
+   corresponding back references.  */
 
 static reg_errcode_t
 internal_function
@@ -3387,7 +3387,7 @@
   dests_node = dests_alloc->dests_node;
   dests_ch = dests_alloc->dests_ch;
 
-  /* Initialize transiton table.  */
+  /* Initialize transition table.  */
   state->word_trtable = state->trtable = NULL;
 
   /* At first, group all nodes belonging to 'state' into several
--- a/lib/search.in.h
+++ b/lib/search.in.h
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
        and after the right subtree traversal,
      - for leaf nodes: once.
    The arguments passed to ACTION are:
-     1. the node; it can be casted to a 'const void * const *', i.e. into a
+     1. the node; it can be cast to a 'const void * const *', i.e. into a
         pointer to the key,
      2. an indicator which visit of the node this is,
      3. the level of the node in the tree (0 for the root).  */
--- a/lib/sleep.c
+++ b/lib/sleep.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   unsigned int remaining;
 
   /* Sleep for 1 second many times, because
-       1. Sleep is not interruptiple by Ctrl-C,
+       1. Sleep is not interruptible by Ctrl-C,
        2. we want to avoid arithmetic overflow while multiplying with 1000.  */
   for (remaining = seconds; remaining > 0; remaining--)
     Sleep (1000);
--- a/lib/strftime.c
+++ b/lib/strftime.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 extern char *tzname[];
 #endif
 
-/* Do multibyte processing if multibytes are supported, unless
+/* Do multibyte processing if multibyte encodings are supported, unless
    multibyte sequences are safe in formats.  Multibyte sequences are
    safe if they cannot contain byte sequences that look like format
    conversion specifications.  The multibyte encodings used by the
--- a/lib/sys_socket.in.h
+++ b/lib/sys_socket.in.h
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
    that you can influence which definitions you get by setting the
    WINVER symbol before including these two files.  For example,
    getaddrinfo is only available if _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0501 (that
-   symbol is set indiriectly through WINVER).  You can set this by
+   symbol is set indirectly through WINVER).  You can set this by
    adding AC_DEFINE(WINVER, 0x0501) to configure.ac.  Note that your
    code may not run on older Windows releases then.  My Windows 2000
    box was not able to run the code, for example.  The situation is
--- a/lib/trigl.c
+++ b/lib/trigl.c
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@
 
   jz = jk;
 recompute:
-  /* distill q[] into iq[] reversingly */
+  /* distill q[] into iq[] in reverse order */
   for (i = 0, j = jz, z = q[jz]; j > 0; i++, j--)
     {
       fw = (double) ((int) (twon24 * z));
--- a/lib/vasnprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vasnprintf.c
@@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@
                   if (has_width)
                     {
 #  if ENABLE_UNISTDIO
-                      /* Outside POSIX, it's preferrable to compare the width
+                      /* Outside POSIX, it's preferable to compare the width
                          against the number of _characters_ of the converted
                          value.  */
                       w = DCHAR_MBSNLEN (result + length, characters);
@@ -5417,7 +5417,7 @@
                       {
                         size_t w;
 # if ENABLE_UNISTDIO
-                        /* Outside POSIX, it's preferrable to compare the width
+                        /* Outside POSIX, it's preferable to compare the width
                            against the number of _characters_ of the converted
                            value.  */
                         w = DCHAR_MBSNLEN (result + length, count);
--- a/lib/version-etc.h
+++ b/lib/version-etc.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
    standard way: command and package names, package version, followed
    by a short GPLv3+ notice and a list of up to 10 author names.
 
-   If COMMAND_NAME is NULL, the PACKAGE is asumed to be the name of
+   If COMMAND_NAME is NULL, the PACKAGE is assumed to be the name of
    the program.  The formats are therefore:
 
    PACKAGE VERSION
--- a/lib/w32sock.h
+++ b/lib/w32sock.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* w32sock.h --- internal auxilliary functions for Windows socket functions
+/* w32sock.h --- internal auxiliary functions for Windows socket functions
 
    Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
--- a/m4/exponentd.m4
+++ b/m4/exponentd.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# exponentd.m4 serial 2
+# exponentd.m4 serial 3
 dnl Copyright (C) 2007-2008, 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@
           dnl different sets of instructions: The older FPA instructions assume
           dnl that they are stored in big-endian word order, while the words
           dnl (like integer types) are stored in little-endian byte order.
-          dnl The newer VFP instructions assume little-endian order consistenly.
+          dnl The newer VFP instructions assume little-endian order
+          dnl consistently.
           AC_EGREP_CPP([mixed_endianness], [
 #if defined arm || defined __arm || defined __arm__
   mixed_endianness
--- a/m4/locale-ar.m4
+++ b/m4/locale-ar.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# locale-ar.m4 serial 4
+# locale-ar.m4 serial 5
 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
   /* On native Windows, setlocale(category, "") looks at the system settings,
      not at the environment variables.  Also, when an encoding suffix such
-     as ".65001" or ".54936" is speficied, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
+     as ".65001" or ".54936" is specified, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
      category of the locale to "C".  */
   if (setlocale (LC_ALL, getenv ("LC_ALL")) == NULL
       || strcmp (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL), "C") == 0)
--- a/m4/locale-fr.m4
+++ b/m4/locale-fr.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# locale-fr.m4 serial 15
+# locale-fr.m4 serial 16
 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
   /* On native Windows, setlocale(category, "") looks at the system settings,
      not at the environment variables.  Also, when an encoding suffix such
-     as ".65001" or ".54936" is speficied, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
+     as ".65001" or ".54936" is specified, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
      category of the locale to "C".  */
   if (setlocale (LC_ALL, getenv ("LC_ALL")) == NULL
       || strcmp (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL), "C") == 0)
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 # if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
   /* On native Windows, setlocale(category, "") looks at the system settings,
      not at the environment variables.  Also, when an encoding suffix such
-     as ".65001" or ".54936" is speficied, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
+     as ".65001" or ".54936" is specified, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
      category of the locale to "C".  */
   if (setlocale (LC_ALL, getenv ("LC_ALL")) == NULL
       || strcmp (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL), "C") == 0)
--- a/m4/locale-ja.m4
+++ b/m4/locale-ja.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# locale-ja.m4 serial 10
+# locale-ja.m4 serial 11
 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
   /* On native Windows, setlocale(category, "") looks at the system settings,
      not at the environment variables.  Also, when an encoding suffix such
-     as ".65001" or ".54936" is speficied, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
+     as ".65001" or ".54936" is specified, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
      category of the locale to "C".  */
   if (setlocale (LC_ALL, getenv ("LC_ALL")) == NULL
       || strcmp (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL), "C") == 0)
--- a/m4/locale-tr.m4
+++ b/m4/locale-tr.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# locale-tr.m4 serial 8
+# locale-tr.m4 serial 9
 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
   /* On native Windows, setlocale(category, "") looks at the system settings,
      not at the environment variables.  Also, when an encoding suffix such
-     as ".65001" or ".54936" is speficied, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
+     as ".65001" or ".54936" is specified, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
      category of the locale to "C".  */
   if (setlocale (LC_ALL, getenv ("LC_ALL")) == NULL
       || strcmp (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL), "C") == 0)
--- a/m4/locale-zh.m4
+++ b/m4/locale-zh.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# locale-zh.m4 serial 10
+# locale-zh.m4 serial 11
 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
   /* On native Windows, setlocale(category, "") looks at the system settings,
      not at the environment variables.  Also, when an encoding suffix such
-     as ".65001" or ".54936" is speficied, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
+     as ".65001" or ".54936" is specified, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
      category of the locale to "C".  */
   if (setlocale (LC_ALL, getenv ("LC_ALL")) == NULL
       || strcmp (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL), "C") == 0)
--- a/m4/po.m4
+++ b/m4/po.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# po.m4 serial 17a
+# po.m4 serial 17b
 dnl Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@
               test -n "$as_me" && echo "$as_me: setting ALL_LINGUAS in configure.in is obsolete" || echo "setting ALL_LINGUAS in configure.in is obsolete"
             fi
             ALL_LINGUAS_=`sed -e "/^#/d" -e "s/#.*//" "$ac_given_srcdir/$ac_dir/LINGUAS"`
-            # Hide the ALL_LINGUAS assigment from automake < 1.5.
+            # Hide the ALL_LINGUAS assignment from automake < 1.5.
             eval 'ALL_LINGUAS''=$ALL_LINGUAS_'
             POMAKEFILEDEPS="$POMAKEFILEDEPS LINGUAS"
           else
             # The set of available languages was given in configure.in.
-            # Hide the ALL_LINGUAS assigment from automake < 1.5.
+            # Hide the ALL_LINGUAS assignment from automake < 1.5.
             eval 'ALL_LINGUAS''=$OBSOLETE_ALL_LINGUAS'
           fi
           # Compute POFILES
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
     sed_x_LINGUAS=`$gt_echo "$sed_x_variable" | sed -e '/^ *#/d' -e 's/VARIABLE/LINGUAS/g'`
     ALL_LINGUAS_=`sed -n -e "$sed_x_LINGUAS" < "$ac_file"`
   fi
-  # Hide the ALL_LINGUAS assigment from automake < 1.5.
+  # Hide the ALL_LINGUAS assignment from automake < 1.5.
   eval 'ALL_LINGUAS''=$ALL_LINGUAS_'
   # Compute POFILES
   # as      $(foreach lang, $(ALL_LINGUAS), $(srcdir)/$(lang).po)
--- a/m4/readline.m4
+++ b/m4/readline.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# readline.m4 serial 9
+# readline.m4 serial 10
 dnl Copyright (C) 2005-2006, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     am_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
     dnl On some systems, -lreadline doesn't link without an additional
     dnl -lncurses or -ltermcap.
-    dnl Try -lncurses before -ltermcap, because libtermcap is unsecure
+    dnl Try -lncurses before -ltermcap, because libtermcap is insecure
     dnl by design and obsolete since 1994. Try -lcurses last, because
     dnl libcurses is unusable on some old Unices.
     for extra_lib in "" ncurses termcap curses; do
--- a/m4/sig_atomic_t.m4
+++ b/m4/sig_atomic_t.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# sig_atomic_t.m4 serial 2
+# sig_atomic_t.m4 serial 3
 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
   AC_CHECK_TYPES([sig_atomic_t], ,
     [AC_DEFINE([sig_atomic_t], [int],
        [Define as an integer type suitable for memory locations that can be
-        accessed atomically even in the presence of asynchnonous signals.])],
+        accessed atomically even in the presence of asynchronous signals.])],
     [#include <signal.h>])
 ])
--- a/m4/vasnprintf.m4
+++ b/m4/vasnprintf.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# vasnprintf.m4 serial 34
+# vasnprintf.m4 serial 35
 dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2004, 2006-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   gl_PREREQ_ASNPRINTF
 ])
 
-# Prequisites of lib/printf-args.h, lib/printf-args.c.
+# Prerequisites of lib/printf-args.h, lib/printf-args.c.
 AC_DEFUN([gl_PREREQ_PRINTF_ARGS],
 [
   AC_REQUIRE([AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT])
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
   AC_REQUIRE([gt_TYPE_WINT_T])
 ])
 
-# Prequisites of lib/printf-parse.h, lib/printf-parse.c.
+# Prerequisites of lib/printf-parse.h, lib/printf-parse.c.
 AC_DEFUN([gl_PREREQ_PRINTF_PARSE],
 [
   AC_REQUIRE([gl_FEATURES_H])
--- a/tests/test-closein.sh
+++ b/tests/test-closein.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 echo world > xout.tmp
 
 fail=0
-# Test with seekable stdin; followon process must see remaining data
+# Test with seekable stdin; follow-on process must see remaining data
 (test-closein; cat) < in.tmp > out1.tmp || fail=1
 cmp out1.tmp in.tmp || fail=1
 
--- a/tests/test-lock.c
+++ b/tests/test-lock.c
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
   for (repeat = 0; repeat <= REPEAT_COUNT; repeat++)
     {
       /* Wait until every thread is ready.  */
-      dbgprintf ("Main thread before synchonizing for round %d\n", repeat);
+      dbgprintf ("Main thread before synchronizing for round %d\n", repeat);
       for (;;)
         {
           int ready_count = 0;
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@
             break;
           yield ();
         }
-      dbgprintf ("Main thread after  synchonizing for round %d\n", repeat);
+      dbgprintf ("Main thread after  synchronizing for round %d\n", repeat);
 
       if (repeat > 0)
         {
--- a/tests/test-strerror.c
+++ b/tests/test-strerror.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
   ASSERT (strstr (str, "ndefined") == NULL);
 
   /* POSIX requires strerror to produce a non-NULL result for all
-     inputs; as an extension, we also guarantee a non-empty reseult.
+     inputs; as an extension, we also guarantee a non-empty result.
      Reporting EINVAL is optional.  */
   errno = 0;
   str = strerror (-3);
--- a/tests/test-tsearch.c
+++ b/tests/test-tsearch.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 /* The keys we add to the tree.  */
 static int x[SIZE];
 
-/* Pointers into the key array, possibly permutated, to define an order
+/* Pointers into the key array, possibly permuted, to define an order
    for insertion/removal.  */
 static int y[SIZE];
 
--- a/tests/test-yesno.sh
+++ b/tests/test-yesno.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   cr='\r'
 fi
 
-# Test with seekable stdin; the followon process must see remaining data.
+# Test with seekable stdin; the follow-on process must see remaining data.
 tr @ '\177' <<EOF > in.tmp
 nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn - entire line consumed
 y@n - backspace does not change result