diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old
index 7a7ce227a..97d4b5e9f 100644
--- a/Changes.old
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@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ listen.2
 semop.2
     mtk
         Added BUG: in some circumstances, a process that is
-        waiting for a semaphore to become zero is not not woken
+        waiting for a semaphore to become zero is not woken
         up when the value does actually reach zero.
         http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110260821123863&w=2
         http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110261701025794&w=2
@@ -16331,7 +16331,7 @@ path_resolution.7
         Global fix: s/mount-point namespace/mount namespace/
             This is more consistent with the term "mounts namespace"
             used in the 2008 ACM SIGOPS paper, "Virtual servers
-            and and checkpoint/restart in mainstream Linux".
+            and checkpoint/restart in mainstream Linux".
             (I avoided the "s", because using the plural strikes me
             as klunky English, and anyway we don't talk about
             the "PIDs namespace" or the "networks namespace", etc..)
@@ -16557,7 +16557,7 @@ pthread_setschedparam.3
     Michael Kerrisk
         PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED is default for inherit scheduler attribute
             In EXAMPLE, note that PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED is the default for
-            the inherit scheduler attribute attribute.
+            the inherit scheduler attribute.
 
 syslog.3
     Masanari Iida
@@ -18060,7 +18060,7 @@ splice.2
 syscalls.2
     Michael Kerrisk
         Note that getpmsg(2) and putmsg(2) are unimplemented
-            See See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514771
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514771
 
 timerfd_create.2
     Michael Kerrisk
@@ -19891,7 +19891,7 @@ socket.7
 udp.7
     Michael Kerrisk
         Add FIONREAD warning.
-            Warn that FIONREAD can't can't distinguish case of a zero-length
+            Warn that FIONREAD can't distinguish case of a zero-length
             datagram from the case where no datagrams are available.
 
 
@@ -26090,7 +26090,7 @@ rtnetlink.7
 socket.7
     Pavel Emelyanov
         SO_BINDTODEVICE is now readable
-            SO_BINDTODEVICE is readable since since kernel 3.8.
+            SO_BINDTODEVICE is readable since kernel 3.8.
 
 
 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.49 ====================
@@ -26425,7 +26425,7 @@ clone.2
             and the wrapper function in the introductory text.
     Michael Kerrisk
         Update feature test macro requirements
-            The requirements quietly changed changed in glibc 2.14
+            The requirements quietly changed in glibc 2.14
 
             See also http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4749
     Michael Kerrisk  [Mike Frysinger]
@@ -26537,7 +26537,7 @@ umask.2
 unshare.2
     Michael Kerrisk
         Update feature test macro requirements
-            The requirements quietly changed changed in glibc 2.14
+            The requirements quietly changed in glibc 2.14
 
             See also http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4749
 
@@ -26576,7 +26576,7 @@ scalb.3
 sched_getcpu.3
     Michael Kerrisk
         Update feature test macro requirements
-            The requirements quietly changed changed in glibc 2.14
+            The requirements quietly changed in glibc 2.14
 
             See also http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4749