diff --git a/LDP/guide/linuxdoc/lki.sgml b/LDP/guide/linuxdoc/lki.sgml
index 4efe146b..155bf72a 100644
--- a/LDP/guide/linuxdoc/lki.sgml
+++ b/LDP/guide/linuxdoc/lki.sgml
@@ -3653,7 +3653,7 @@ determines why it was awakened, and how it should
 respond.  The following cases are handled:
 
 <itemize>
-<item>  If the the semaphore set has been removed, then
+<item>  If the semaphore set has been removed, then
         the system call fails with EIDRM.
 
 <item>  If the <tt>status</tt> element of the
@@ -4208,7 +4208,7 @@ the temporary buffer are copied out to user space by
 The user data is copied in via
 <ref id="copy_msqid_to_user" name="copy_msqid_to_user()">.  The global
 message queue semaphore and spinlock are obtained and released
-at the end.  After the the message queue ID and the current
+at the end.  After the message queue ID and the current
 process access permissions are validated, the message queue
 information is updated with the user provided data.  Later,
 <ref id="expunge_all" name="expunge_all()"> and
@@ -4754,7 +4754,7 @@ flag equals IPC_64, then copy_to_user() is invoked to copy from
 the kernel buffer to the user buffer directly.  Otherwise a
 temporary buffer of type struct msqid_ds is initialized, and the
 kernel data is translated to this temporary buffer.  Later
-copy_to_user() is called to copy the contents of the the temporary
+copy_to_user() is called to copy the contents of the temporary
 buffer to the user buffer.
 </sect3>
 
@@ -5163,7 +5163,7 @@ spinlock for the given IPC type locked.
 </sect3>
 
 <sect3>ipc_rmid()<label id="func_ipc_rmid"><p>
-ipc_rmid() removes the IPC descriptor from the the global
+ipc_rmid() removes the IPC descriptor from the global
 descriptor array of the IPC type, updates the count of IDs which
 are in use, and adjusts the maximum ID in the corresponding
 descriptor array if necessary. A pointer to  the IPC