From 3c5e62b618bc18c1e5b8370c3d0f368ab8bb5e43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:01:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a/an usage

---
 man2/epoll_wait.2 | 2 +-
 man3/ecvt.3       | 2 +-
 man3/scanf.3      | 4 ++--
 man4/rtc.4        | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2
index 73941ab4d..dddc7aafe 100644
--- a/man2/epoll_wait.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ struct epoll_event {
 
 The
 .I data
-of each returned structure will contain the same data the user set with a
+of each returned structure will contain the same data the user set with an
 .BR epoll_ctl (2)
 .RB ( EPOLL_CTL_ADD , EPOLL_CTL_MOD )
 while the
diff --git a/man3/ecvt.3 b/man3/ecvt.3
index 880b33afe..eeb7ebfc9 100644
--- a/man3/ecvt.3
+++ b/man3/ecvt.3
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
 The
 .BR ecvt ()
 function converts \fInumber\fP to a null-terminated
-string of \fIndigits\fP digits (where \fIndigits\fP is reduced to an
+string of \fIndigits\fP digits (where \fIndigits\fP is reduced to a
 system-specific limit determined by the precision of a
 .IR double ),
 and returns a pointer to the string.
diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3
index 3dfe6ba5f..c35509efb 100644
--- a/man3/scanf.3
+++ b/man3/scanf.3
@@ -294,9 +294,9 @@ or
 .B j
 As for
 .BR h ,
-but the next pointer is a pointer to a
+but the next pointer is a pointer to an
 .I intmax_t
-or
+or a
 .IR uintmax_t .
 This modifier was introduced in C99.
 .TP
diff --git a/man4/rtc.4 b/man4/rtc.4
index c5edf1e6f..ea87bcd56 100644
--- a/man4/rtc.4
+++ b/man4/rtc.4
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ The periodic interrupt must be separately enabled or disabled using the
 requests.
 The third
 .BR ioctl (2)
-argument is a
+argument is an
 .I "unsigned long\ *"
-or a
+or an
 .IR "unsigned long" ,
 respectively.
 The value is the frequency in interrupts per second.