Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes

independent of fixes for American spelling).

man2/execve.2

@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ We can use the second program to exec the first as follows:
 .nf
 $ cc myecho.c -o myecho
 $ cc execve.c -o execve
-$ ./exceve ./myecho
+$ ./execve ./myecho
 argv[0]: ./myecho
 argv[1]: hello
 argv[2]: world

man2/getxattr.2

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ getxattr, lgetxattr, fgetxattr \- retrieve an extended attribute value
 Extended attributes are
 .IR name :\c
 .I value
-pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
 They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
 with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
 .BR stat (2)

man2/listxattr.2

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ listxattr, llistxattr, flistxattr \- list extended attribute names
 .fam T
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Extended attributes are name:value
-pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
 They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
 with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
 .BR stat (2)

man2/removexattr.2

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ removexattr, lremovexattr, fremovexattr \- remove an extended attribute
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Extended attributes are
 .IR name :\c
-value pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+value pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
 They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
 with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
 .BR stat (2)

man2/setxattr.2

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ setxattr, lsetxattr, fsetxattr \- set an extended attribute value
 Extended attributes are
 .IR name :\c
 .I value
-pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
 They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
 with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
 .BR stat (2)

man2/signal.2

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ or the signal is blocked (see \fIPortability\fP below), and then
 .I handler
 is called with argument
 .IR signum .
-If invokation of the handler caused the signal to be blocked,
+If invocation of the handler caused the signal to be blocked,
 then the signal is unblocked upon return from the handler.
 .PP
 The signals

man2/syscall.2

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ syscall \- indirect system call
 .nf
 .B "#define _BSD_SOURCE        /* or _GNU_SOURCE or _SVID_SOURCE */"
 .B #include <unistd.h>
-.B "#include <sys/syscall.h>   /* For SYS_xxx definitons */"
+.B "#include <sys/syscall.h>   /* For SYS_xxx definitions */"
 
 .BI "int syscall(int " number ", ...);"
 .fi

man3/aio_cancel.3

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ is not NULL, and
 differs from the file descriptor with which the asynchronous operation
 was initiated, unspecified results occur.
 .LP
-Which operations are cancelable is implementation-defined.
+Which operations are cancellable is implementation-defined.
 .\" FreeBSD: not those on raw disk devices.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 This function returns AIO_CANCELED if all requests were successfully

man3/bindresvport.3

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ is 0 then an anonymous port in the range 600 to 1023
 be chosen.
 If the
 .BR bind (2)
-perfomed by 
+performed by 
 .BR bindresvport ()
 is successful, then
 .I sin\->sin_port

man3/stdarg.3

@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ After the call
 the variable
 .I ap
 is undefined.
-Multiple transversals of the list, each
+Multiple traversals of the list, each
 bracketed by
 .BR va_start ()
 and

man5/charmap.5

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ This form defines exactly one character and its encoding.
 .I <symbolic-name>...<symbolic-name> <encoding> <comments>
 This form defines a couple of characters.
 This is only useful for
-mutlibyte-characters, which are currently not implemented.
+multibyte-characters, which are currently not implemented.
 .PP
 The last line in a charmap-definition file must contain
 .B END CHARMAP.

man7/bootparam.7

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ it actually does have, bad things will happen: maybe not at once, but
 surely eventually.''
 
 You can also use the boot argument `mem=nopentium' to turn off 4 MB
-pagetables on kernels configured for IA32 systems with a pentium or newer
+page tables on kernels configured for IA32 systems with a pentium or newer
 CPU.
 .SS "`panic=N'"
 By default the kernel will not reboot after a panic, but this option

man7/ipv6.7

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ handling functions in libc.
 IPv4 and IPv6 share the local port space.
 When you get an IPv4 connection
 or packet to a IPv6 socket its source address will be mapped
-to v6 and it'll be mapped to v6.
+to v6 and it will be mapped to v6.
 .SS "Address Format"
 .sp
 .RS

man7/man.7

@@ -357,9 +357,9 @@ Change to default font size
 .IP \e*(Tm
 Trademark Symbol: \*(Tm
 .IP \e*(lq
-Left angled doublequote: \*(lq
+Left angled double quote: \*(lq
 .IP \e*(rq
-Right angled doublequote: \*(rq
+Right angled double quote: \*(rq
 .SS "Safe Subset"
 Although technically
 .B man

man7/path_resolution.7

@@ -84,13 +84,13 @@ the next component.
 Note that the resolution process here involves recursion.
 In order to protect the kernel against stack overflow, and also
 to protect against denial of service, there are limits on the
-maximum recursion depth, and on the maximum number of symlinks
+maximum recursion depth, and on the maximum number of symbolic links
 followed.
 An ELOOP error is returned when the maximum is
 exceeded ("Too many levels of symbolic links").
 .\"
 .\" presently: max recursion depth during symlink resolution: 5
-.\" max total number of symlinks followed: 40
+.\" max total number of symbolic links followed: 40
 .\" _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX is 8
 .SS "Step 3: Find the final entry"
 The lookup of the final component of the pathname goes just like

man7/uri.7

@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ translate the character sequences into UTF-8 (IETF RFC\ 2279) \(em see
 use the URI escaping mechanism, that is,
 use the %HH encoding for unsafe octets.
 .SH "WRITING A URI"
-When written, URIs should be placed inside doublequotes
+When written, URIs should be placed inside double quotes
 (e.g., "http://www.kernelnotes.org"),
 enclosed in angle brackets (e.g., <http://lwn.net>),
 or placed on a line by themselves.

man8/nscd.8

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ calls remain uncached as a result.
 .B "\-\-help"
 will give you a list with all options and what they do.
 .SH NOTES
-Nscd doesn't know anything about the underlaying protocols for a
+Nscd doesn't know anything about the underlying protocols for a
 service.
 This also means, that if you change
 .I /etc/resolv.conf