Issue #28987: Typos, grammar, spelling in documentation

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 922ee646191edd5e39157ad793931bfe5b702de5..a3c3d89424341a7891a0e5d70378c243b466754b 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ ensure that the new ``__classcell__`` namespace entry is propagated to
 PEP 487: Descriptor Protocol Enhancements
 -----------------------------------------
 
-:pep:`487` extends the descriptor protocol has to include the new optional
+:pep:`487` extends the descriptor protocol to include the new optional
 :meth:`~object.__set_name__` method.  Whenever a new class is defined, the new
 method will be called on all descriptors included in the definition, providing
 them with a reference to the class being defined and the name given to the

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4a39f065a91a662fbfbabc5681da6229e80a634d..b948db8540d52dcd192e52975a00af53bd3153ac 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ Core and Builtins
   to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with
   os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.
 
-- Issue #28991:  functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure $
+- Issue #28991:  functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy
   bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
 
-- Issue #28739: f-string expressions no longer accepted as docstrings and
+- Issue #28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and
   by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
 
 - Issue #28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Library
 Windows
 -------
 
-- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncase string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
+- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
 
 - Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Core and Builtins
   must not convert combined table into split table. Patch written by INADA
   Naoki.
 
-- Issue #28990: Fix asynchio SSL hanging if connection is closed before
+- Issue #28990: Fix asyncio SSL hanging if connection is closed before
   handshake is completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)
 
 Tools/Demos