diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index da155420a..be9009d83 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ and
 .BR O_SYNC
 flags; see BUGS, below.
 .SS Advisory locking
-.BR F_GETLK ", " F_SETLK " and " F_SETLKW
+.BR F_GETLK ", " F_SETLK ", and " F_SETLKW
 are used to acquire, release, and test for the existence of record
 locks (also known as file-segment or file-region locks).
 The third argument,
@@ -1162,9 +1162,9 @@ Only the operations
 .BR F_GETFL ,
 .BR F_SETFL ,
 .BR F_GETLK ,
-.BR F_SETLK
+.BR F_SETLK ,
 and
-.BR F_SETLKW ,
+.BR F_SETLKW 
 are specified in POSIX.1-2001.
 
 .BR F_GETOWN
diff --git a/man2/msgget.2 b/man2/msgget.2
index 1691ea736..342762ea2 100644
--- a/man2/msgget.2
+++ b/man2/msgget.2
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ are set to the least significant 9 bits of
 .IR msg_qnum ,
 .IR msg_lspid ,
 .IR msg_lrpid ,
-.I msg_stime
+.IR msg_stime ,
 and
 .I msg_rtime
 are set to 0.
diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
index c77f7cff7..724c74677 100644
--- a/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ specifies the thread ID of the tracee to be acted on.
 For requests other than
 .BR PTRACE_ATTACH ,
 .BR PTRACE_SEIZE ,
-.B PTRACE_INTERRUPT
+.BR PTRACE_INTERRUPT ,
 and
 .BR PTRACE_KILL ,
 the tracee must be stopped.
diff --git a/man2/request_key.2 b/man2/request_key.2
index 092a4caa5..388765f20 100644
--- a/man2/request_key.2
+++ b/man2/request_key.2
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ is called from a program invoked by
 .BR request_key ()
 on behalf of some other process to generate a key, then the keyrings of that
 other process will be searched next, using that other process's UID, GID,
-groups and security context to control access.
+groups, and security context to control access.
 .P
 The keys in each keyring searched are checked for a match before any child
 keyrings are recursed into.
diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2
index 331ab3f58..f18e2221d 100644
--- a/man2/shmget.2
+++ b/man2/shmget.2
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ is set to the value of
 .IP
 .IR shm_lpid ,
 .IR shm_nattch ,
-.I shm_atime
+.IR shm_atime ,
 and
 .I shm_dtime
 are set to 0.
diff --git a/man2/sigaction.2 b/man2/sigaction.2
index dc719395b..f8ba1b515 100644
--- a/man2/sigaction.2
+++ b/man2/sigaction.2
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ with the real user ID of the message sender.
 .IP *
 .B SIGCHLD
 fills in
-.IR si_pid ", " si_uid ", " si_status ", " si_utime " and " si_stime ,
+.IR si_pid ", " si_uid ", " si_status ", " si_utime ", and " si_stime ,
 providing information about the child.
 The
 .I si_pid
diff --git a/man2/syscalls.2 b/man2/syscalls.2
index 92fff52e2..42ae127da 100644
--- a/man2/syscalls.2
+++ b/man2/syscalls.2
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ older system calls were superseded by newer ones,
 and this has been treated somewhat unsystematically.
 On platforms with
 proprietary operating-system emulation,
-such as parisc, sparc, sparc64 and alpha,
+such as parisc, sparc, sparc64, and alpha,
 there are many additional system calls; mips64 also contains a full
 set of 32-bit system calls.
 
diff --git a/man3/dbopen.3 b/man3/dbopen.3
index b76b7debb..2c047d7a0 100644
--- a/man3/dbopen.3
+++ b/man3/dbopen.3
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ or
 The
 .IR del ,
 .IR get ,
-.I put
+.IR put ,
 and
 .I seq
 routines may fail and set
diff --git a/man3/euidaccess.3 b/man3/euidaccess.3
index ca25ed181..41791d02d 100644
--- a/man3/euidaccess.3
+++ b/man3/euidaccess.3
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ uses the effective identifiers.
 
 .I mode
 is a mask consisting of one or more of
-.BR R_OK ", " W_OK ", " X_OK " and " F_OK ,
+.BR R_OK ", " W_OK ", " X_OK ", and " F_OK ,
 with the same meanings as for
 .BR access (2).
 
diff --git a/man3/getgrnam.3 b/man3/getgrnam.3
index cf13595e9..33ea3f9d4 100644
--- a/man3/getgrnam.3
+++ b/man3/getgrnam.3
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ One might argue that according to POSIX
 should be left unchanged if an entry is not found.
 Experiments on various
 UNIX-like systems shows that lots of different values occur in this
-situation: 0, ENOENT, EBADF, ESRCH, EWOULDBLOCK, EPERM and probably others.
+situation: 0, ENOENT, EBADF, ESRCH, EWOULDBLOCK, EPERM, and probably others.
 .\" more precisely:
 .\" AIX 5.1 - gives ESRCH
 .\" OSF1 4.0g - gives EWOULDBLOCK
diff --git a/man3/getpwnam.3 b/man3/getpwnam.3
index ba55c8d6e..5b63f1ec0 100644
--- a/man3/getpwnam.3
+++ b/man3/getpwnam.3
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ One might argue that according to POSIX
 should be left unchanged if an entry is not found.
 Experiments on various
 UNIX-like systems show that lots of different values occur in this
-situation: 0, ENOENT, EBADF, ESRCH, EWOULDBLOCK, EPERM and probably others.
+situation: 0, ENOENT, EBADF, ESRCH, EWOULDBLOCK, EPERM, and probably others.
 .\" more precisely:
 .\" AIX 5.1 - gives ESRCH
 .\" OSF1 4.0g - gives EWOULDBLOCK
diff --git a/man3/strfmon.3 b/man3/strfmon.3
index db51926f9..6eee4d757 100644
--- a/man3/strfmon.3
+++ b/man3/strfmon.3
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ and will no doubt cause confusion.
 Surprisingly, the "fl" is preceded and followed by a space,
 and "NLG" is preceded by one and followed by two spaces.
 This may be a bug in the locale files.
-The Italian, Australian, Swiss
+The Italian, Australian, Swiss,
 and Portuguese locales yield
 .in +4n
 
diff --git a/man3/strtol.3 b/man3/strtol.3
index f6f003940..b060f0497 100644
--- a/man3/strtol.3
+++ b/man3/strtol.3
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ as long as
 is not called to change the locale during their execution.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 .BR strtol ()
-conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99 and POSIX.1-2001, and
+conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99, and POSIX.1-2001, and
 .BR strtoll ()
 to C99 and POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
diff --git a/man3/strtoul.3 b/man3/strtoul.3
index 034f6471f..ebd9da99e 100644
--- a/man3/strtoul.3
+++ b/man3/strtoul.3
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ as long as
 is not called to change the locale during their execution.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 .BR strtoul ()
-conforms to SVr4, C89, C99 and POSIX-2001, and
+conforms to SVr4, C89, C99, and POSIX-2001, and
 .BR strtoull ()
 to C99 and POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
diff --git a/man4/cciss.4 b/man4/cciss.4
index 02d6a443e..9d9b1e114 100644
--- a/man4/cciss.4
+++ b/man4/cciss.4
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ or medium changers.
 .RE
 .LP
 The driver will output messages indicating which
-devices have been added or removed and the controller, bus, target and
+devices have been added or removed and the controller, bus, target, and
 lun used to address each device.
 The driver then notifies the SCSI midlayer
 of these changes.
diff --git a/man4/hpsa.4 b/man4/hpsa.4
index d33d33ab0..9b672704a 100644
--- a/man4/hpsa.4
+++ b/man4/hpsa.4
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ For example:
 This attribute contains the 16 hex-digit (8 byte) LUN ID
 by which a logical drive or physical device can be addressed.
 .IR c : b : t : l
-are the controller, bus, target and lun of the device.
+are the controller, bus, target, and lun of the device.
 .nf
 
 For example:
diff --git a/man4/mouse.4 b/man4/mouse.4
index b469b80b2..77070d6da 100644
--- a/man4/mouse.4
+++ b/man4/mouse.4
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ and
 (positive means down).
 Various mice can operate at different speeds.
 To select speeds, cycle through the
-speeds 9600, 4800, 2400 and 1200 bit/s, each time writing the two characters
+speeds 9600, 4800, 2400, and 1200 bit/s, each time writing the two characters
 from the table below and waiting 0.1 seconds.
 The following table shows available speeds and the strings that select them:
 .TS
diff --git a/man5/termcap.5 b/man5/termcap.5
index a17c16e7c..e580ba21c 100644
--- a/man5/termcap.5
+++ b/man5/termcap.5
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ LO	Turn soft labels on
 mb	Start blinking
 MC	Clear soft margins
 md	Start bold mode
-me	End all mode like so, us, mb, md and mr
+me	End all mode like so, us, mb, md, and mr
 mh	Start half bright mode
 mk	Dark mode (Characters invisible)
 ML	Set left soft margin
diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7
index e6cc907e1..4c44a46e4 100644
--- a/man7/charsets.7
+++ b/man7/charsets.7
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ It is currently described by the ECMA-6 standard.
 .LP
 Various ASCII variants replacing the dollar sign with other currency
 symbols and replacing punctuation with non-English alphabetic characters
-to cover German, French, Spanish and others in 7 bits exist.
+to cover German, French, Spanish, and others in 7 bits exist.
 All are
 deprecated; glibc doesn't support locales whose character sets aren't
 true supersets of ASCII.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ It is essentially obsolete; see 8859-10 (Latin-6) and 8859-13 (Latin-7).
 .TP
 8859-5
 Cyrillic letters supporting Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian,
-Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian.
+Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
 Ukrainians read the letter "ghe"
 with downstroke as "heh" and would need a ghe with upstroke to write a
 correct ghe.
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ by the Linux kernel and by
 .BR xterm (1).
 It is popular in Japan and Korea.
 .LP
-There are 4 graphic character sets, called G0, G1, G2 and G3,
+There are 4 graphic character sets, called G0, G1, G2, and G3,
 and one of them is the current character set for codes with
 high bit zero (initially G0), and one of them is the current
 character set for codes with high bit one (initially G1).
diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-16.7 b/man7/iso_8859-16.7
index 9d0c487e6..5304549bc 100644
--- a/man7/iso_8859-16.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-16.7
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ characters and is not implemented yet by any program vendors.
 .P
 ISO 8859-16 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian,
 Croatian, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish,
-Romanian, Slovenian and Serbian.
+Romanian, Slovenian, and Serbian.
 .P
 Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one
 transliterations to Latin 10: Macedonian and Serbian.
diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-2.7 b/man7/iso_8859-2.7
index e37a5718b..3a35955fa 100644
--- a/man7/iso_8859-2.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-2.7
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ characters and is implemented by several program vendors.
 .P
 ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian,
 Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish,
-Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian.
+Slovak, Slovenian, and Sorbian.
 .P
 Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one
 transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.
diff --git a/man7/koi8-r.7 b/man7/koi8-r.7
index dcb055b34..84ee9de83 100644
--- a/man7/koi8-r.7
+++ b/man7/koi8-r.7
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ hexadecimal
 KOI8-R is the character set of choice for encoding Russian texts for
 many UNIX-like operation systems.
 KOI8-R is a successor for KOI-8, a
-de-facto standard for Internet Mail, News, WWW and other interactive
+de-facto standard for Internet Mail, News, WWW, and other interactive
 services at least all over the ex-SU territory.
 .PP
 KOI8-R is defined by RFC\ 1489 (Registration of a Cyrillic Character
diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7
index a9d1d4df6..3eb105435 100644
--- a/man7/unicode.7
+++ b/man7/unicode.7
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ eventually include not only Hieroglyphs and various historic
 Indo-European languages, but even some selected artistic scripts such
 as Tengwar, Cirth, and Klingon.
 UCS also covers a large number of
-graphical, typographical, mathematical and scientific symbols,
+graphical, typographical, mathematical, and scientific symbols,
 including those provided by TeX, Postscript, APL, MS-DOS, MS-Windows,
 Macintosh, OCR fonts, as well as many word processing and publishing
 systems, and more are being added.
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ technical reports published by the Unicode Consortium provide much
 additional information on the semantics and recommended usages of
 various characters.
 They provide guidelines and algorithms for
-editing, sorting, comparing, normalizing, converting and displaying
+editing, sorting, comparing, normalizing, converting, and displaying
 Unicode strings.
 .SS Unicode under Linux
 Under GNU/Linux, the C type
diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index 3cdd615a1..b194b94df 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ All possible 2^31 UCS codes can be encoded using
 .BR UTF-8 .
 .TP
 *
-The bytes 0xc0, 0xc1, 0xfe and 0xff are never used in the
+The bytes 0xc0, 0xc1, 0xfe, and 0xff are never used in the
 .B UTF-8
 encoding.
 .TP