misc: fix man doc spelling and grammar for translation

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>

diff --git a/ps/ps.1 b/ps/ps.1
index cdb7536be07f05dbf3034efcc21077ed8966962d..90f12acb34feb9ec2ea1c59361703c4788fe08cd 100644 (file)
--- a/ps/ps.1
+++ b/ps/ps.1
@@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ number of kernel threads owned by the process.
 T}
 
 tid    TID     T{
-the unique number representing a dispatacable entity (alias
+the unique number representing a dispatchable entity (alias
 .BR lwp , \ spid ).
 This value may also appear as: a process ID (pid); a process group ID (pgrp);
 a session ID for the session leader (sid); a thread group ID for the thread

diff --git a/sysctl.8 b/sysctl.8
index faf2255aaab4a1a01e1478648ac245983b639153..a74b2d77b931f20c72044d743fa0fd7f4abf7d95 100644 (file)
--- a/sysctl.8
+++ b/sysctl.8
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ Load in sysctl settings from the file specified or /etc/sysctl.conf if none
 given.  Specifying \- as filename means reading data from standard input.
 Using this option will mean arguments to
 .B sysctl
-are files, which are read in order they are specified.  The file argument can
-may be specified as reqular expression.
+are files, which are read in the order they are specified.
+The file argument may be specified as reqular expression.
 .TP
 \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-all\fR
 Display all values currently available.
@@ -112,10 +112,10 @@ Alias of \fB\-p\fR
 Alias of \fB\-a\fR
 .TP
 \fB\-o\fR
-Does nothing in favour of BSD compatibility.
+Does nothing, exists for BSD compatibility.
 .TP
 \fB\-x\fR
-Does nothing in favour of BSD compatibility.
+Does nothing, exists for BSD compatibility.
 .TP
 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
 Display help text and exit.