Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,

especially in troff files.

6 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index c544c94..99a0786 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ a lowly bit twiddler.  Now with what I learned at MIT Tech I feel
 really important and can obfuscate and confuse with the best."
 
 Mr. MARC had this to say:  "Ten short days ago all I could look forward
-to was a dead-end job as a engineer.  Now I have a promising future and
+to was a dead-end job as an engineer.  Now I have a promising future and
 make really big Zorkmids."
 
 MIT Tech can't promise these fantastic results to everyone, but when
@@ -2507,7 +2507,7 @@ Blacks, 'cause if they couldn't, they'd have to wake up to the fact
 that life's one big, scary, glorious, complex and ultimately
 unfathomable crapshoot -- and the only reason THEY can't seem to keep
 up is they're a bunch of misfits and losers."
-		-- A analysis of Neo-Nazis, from "The Badger" comic
+		-- An analysis of Neo-Nazis, from "The Badger" comic
 %
 Air is water with holes in it
 %
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index 63ae95a..d046d16 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -4435,7 +4435,7 @@ they're not selling."
 	Bowman hesitates.  "You aren't IBM compatible."
 [...]
 	"The letters H, A, and L are alphabetically adjacent to the letters
-I, B, and M.  That is a IBM compatible as I can be."
+I, B, and M.  That is as IBM compatible as I can be."
 	"Not quite, HAL.  The engineers have figured out a kludge."
 	"What kludge is that, Dave?"
 	"I'm going to disconnect your brain."
@@ -21036,7 +21036,7 @@ Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
 %
 Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929.
 Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an operating
-table to prevent her interference, he placed a ureteral catheter into
+table to prevent her interference, he placed a urethral catheter into
 a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [of his heart], and
 walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he took the confirmatory
 x-ray film.  In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the Nobel Prize.
@@ -36575,7 +36575,7 @@ Q:	How can you tell when a Burroughs salesman is lying?
 A:	When his lips move.
 %
 Q:	How did the elephant get to the top of the oak tree?
-A:	He sat on a acorn and waited for spring.
+A:	He sat on an acorn and waited for spring.
 
 Q:	But how did he get back down?
 A:	He crawled out on a leaf and waited for autumn.
@@ -40118,7 +40118,7 @@ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
 Son, someday a man is going to walk up to you with a deck of cards on which
 the seal is not yet broken.  And he is going to offer to bet you that he can
 make the Ace of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ears.
-But son, do not bet this man, for you will end up with a ear full of cider.
+But son, do not bet this man, for you will end up with an ear full of cider.
 		-- Sky Masterson's Father
 %
 Sooner or later you must pay for your sins.
@@ -50098,7 +50098,7 @@ We gotta get out of this place,
 If it's the last thing we ever do.
 		-- The Animals
 %
-We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
+We have an equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
 %
 We have art that we do not die of the truth.
 		-- Nietzsche
@@ -55170,7 +55170,7 @@ a lowly bit twiddler.  Now with what I learned at MIT Tech I feel really
 important and can obfuscate and confuse with the best."
 
 Mr. Watkins had this to say:  "Ten short days ago all I could look forward
-to was a dead-end job as a engineer.  Now I have a promising future and
+to was a dead-end job as an engineer.  Now I have a promising future and
 make really big Zorkmids."
 
 MIT Tech can't promise these fantastic results to everyone, but when
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
index 7f276a7..2c11a46 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ some good news and some bad news."
 	He muttered, "It's quarterly report day, Sally -- just the good news."
 	She replied, "You're not sterile."
 %
-	A sociologist, a psychologist, and a engineer were discussing the
+	A sociologist, a psychologist, and an engineer were discussing the
 consequences and implications of a married man's having a mistress.  The
 sociologist's opinion was that it is absolutely and categorically unforgivable
 for a married man to forfeit the bond of matrimony, and engage in such lowly
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ limited graphics capability.  Comes fully assembled, with 4 AA batteries.
 his waist had gone both East and West despite his daily racquetball, a young
 executive appeared at a local health resort.  Looking over the several weight
 loss plans offered, he selected one guaranteed to reduce his weight by two
-pounds per day.  After a light breakfast, and a almost non-existent lunch, he
+pounds per day.  After a light breakfast, and an almost non-existent lunch, he
 was escorted to a large room, where a young, attractive woman told him that
 "if he caught her, he could have her".  After an hour of hard running, he
 finally gave up; and weighing himself, was comforted to realize that he had
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ was to reduce his weight by four pounds per session.  After following the same
 regimen, he was again escorted to a large room, but after two hours of running,
 he caught the young woman.  Weight loss, just over four pounds.  Returning the
 following week, he chose to lose eight pounds in a single day.  He was shown
-to the largest room he'd seen, by far, where he was confronted by a extremely
+to the largest room he'd seen, by far, where he was confronted by an extremely
 muscular, burly man, who looked him square in the eye, flung his towel into
 a corner, and snarled, "You know the rules.  Start running!"
 %
@@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ it's a catch-22.  If he mates, he gets screwed out of an opportunity to mate
 again.  If he doesn't mate, he doesn't reproduce, ending his family tree.  This
 suicidal behavior is commonly called the Preying Mantis Syndrome -- and many
 life forms are periodically subject to its wrath.  How did the preying mantis
-become stuck in such a awful, vicious cycle?  This is probably what happened:
+become stuck in such an awful, vicious cycle?  This is probably what happened:
 	The male mantis arrives at the residence of the female mantis.  After
 some courtship exercises (dinner, a movie, inserting the diaphragm) they mate.
 The female mantis, her lust for... lust being satisfied, relaxes while the
@@ -4997,7 +4997,7 @@ Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Fuck you!!
 Chorus:
 	I don't want to join the army, I don't want to go to war,
 	I'd rather sit around, pickin' dillies off the ground,
-	And livin' off the favors of a 'igh-born lady.
+	And livin' off the favors of an 'igh-born lady.
 	I don't want a bullet up me arse 'ole,
 	I don't want me pecker blown away,
 	I'd rather live in England, in jolly, sunny, England,
@@ -10013,7 +10013,7 @@ On day a Monterey daughter
 Did scuba down under the water.
 	She later turned up
 	The mom of a pup,
-And they say t'was a otter that gotter.
+And they say t'was an otter that gotter.
 %
 On one hot dusty day in 1860, a lone Mexican bandit crossed the border into
 Texas.  After robbing a small bank and shooting up the town, he led the posse
@@ -10224,7 +10224,7 @@ and approached the farmer.
 	"Hey, buddy," he asked, "how come you're not wearing any clothes?"
 	Replied the farmer, "Well, boy, th' other day I was out a-workin'
 in the fields, an' I plum fergot t' wear mah shirt.  Got back to th' house
-that night, and mah neck was stiffer than a oak-wood board.  This here's
+that night, and mah neck was stiffer than an oak-wood board.  This here's
 mah wife's idea."
 %
 One day a little polar bear cub says to his mother, "Mommy, am I really
@@ -11385,7 +11385,7 @@ in the region of the anus  4. [Slang] person who excites in others the
 symptoms of a qwert.
 		-- Webster's Middle World Dictionary, 4th ed.
 %
-Ralph:	Lisa, you have no tits and a awful tight pussy.
+Ralph:	Lisa, you have no tits and an awful tight pussy.
 Lisa:	Ralph... get off my back!!
 %
 randel, n:
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
index 0a23d20..498348b 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy
@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ home team.
 Whatever can go to New York, will.
 %
 Whenever a superstar is traded to your favorite team,
-he fades.  Whenever your team trades away a usless
+he fades.  Whenever your team trades away a useless
 no-name, he immediately rises to stardom.
 %
 Never leave hold of what you've got until you've
diff --git a/games/primes/pattern.c b/games/primes/pattern.c
index dff1f4d..66b2dc8 100644
--- a/games/primes/pattern.c
+++ b/games/primes/pattern.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static const char rcsid[] =
  *   chongo <for a good prime call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1> /\oo/\
  *
  * To avoid excessive sieves for small factors, we use the table below to
- * setup our sieve blocks.  Each element represents a odd number starting
+ * setup our sieve blocks.  Each element represents an odd number starting
  * with 1.  All non-zero elements are factors of 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13.
  */
 
diff --git a/games/primes/primes.h b/games/primes/primes.h
index f4a90fa..fde2b83 100644
--- a/games/primes/primes.h
+++ b/games/primes/primes.h
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ extern const ubig *const pr_limit;	/* largest prime in the prime array */
 
 /*
  * To avoid excessive sieves for small factors, we use the table below to
- * setup our sieve blocks.  Each element represents a odd number starting
+ * setup our sieve blocks.  Each element represents an odd number starting
  * with 1.  All non-zero elements are factors of 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13.
  */
 extern const char pattern[];