fix a few spelling changes

Submitted by: Josh Gilliam

Closes PR's: 4429, 4431-4438

PS: He has agreed to submit all contrib fixes back to the original author.

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ldd/ldd.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ldd/ldd.1
index 4b499fe..6ca8b28 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ldd/ldd.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ldd/ldd.1
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 displays all shared objects that are needed to run the given program.
 Contrary to nm(1), the list includes
 .Dq indirect
-depedencies that are the result of needed shared objects which themselves
+dependencies that are the result of needed shared objects which themselves
 depend on yet other shared objects.
 .Pp
 Zero, one or two
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/perl.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/perl.1
index 38ce017..a484ddb 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/perl.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/perl.1
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 .rn '' }`
-''' $RCSfile: perl.1,v $$Revision: 1.2 $$Date: 1994/10/27 23:16:52 $
+''' $RCSfile: perl.1,v $$Revision: 1.3 $$Date: 1996/10/05 22:26:23 $
 ''' 
 ''' $Log: perl.1,v $
+''' Revision 1.3  1996/10/05 22:26:23  wosch
+''' delete doubled words, e.g.: "the the" -> "the"
+'''
 ''' Revision 1.2  1994/10/27 23:16:52  wollman
 ''' Convince Perl to that is is part of the system, as /usr/bin/perl (binary)
 ''' and /usr/share/perl (library).  The latter was chosen as analogous to other
@@ -4596,7 +4599,7 @@ You may have as many parentheses as you wish.  If you have more than 9
 substrings, the variables $10, $11, ... refer to the corresponding
 substring.  Within the pattern, \e10, \e11,
 etc. refer back to substrings if there have been at least that many left parens
-before the backreference.  Otherwise (for backward compatibilty) \e10
+before the backreference.  Otherwise (for backward compatibility) \e10
 is the same as \e010, a backspace,
 and \e11 the same as \e011, a tab.
 And so on.
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.1
index ba23134..dc8f50d 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.1
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ describe only
 with each problem report.
 .IP \(bu 3m
 For follow-up mail, use the same subject line as the one in the automatic
-acknowledgent. It consists of category, PR number and the original synopsis
+acknowledgement. It consists of category, PR number and the original synopsis
 line.  This allows the support site to relate several mail messages to a
 particular PR and to record them automatically.
 .IP \(bu 3m