3 files changed, 22 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi
index 8ea9508e3e..5607c4cae9 100644
--- a/manual/arith.texi
+++ b/manual/arith.texi
@@ -588,9 +588,9 @@ In these situation one could use the function
 @code{__strto@var{XXX}_internal}.  @var{XXX} here stands for any of the
 above forms.  All numeric conversion functions (including the functions
 to process floating-point numbers) have such a counterpart.  The
-difference to the normal for is the extra argument at the end of the
+difference to the normal form is the extra argument at the end of the
 parameter list.  If this value has an non-zero value the handling of
-number grouping is enabled.  The advantage from using these functions is
+number grouping is enabled.  The advantage of using these functions is
 that the @var{tailptr} parameters allow to determine which part of the
 input is processed.  The @code{scanf} functions don't provide this
 information.  The drawback of using these functions is that they are not
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ number, no conversion is performed.  In this case, @code{strtod} returns
 a value of zero and the value returned in @code{*@var{tailptr}} is the
 value of @var{string}.
 
-In a locale other than the standard @code{"C"} or @code{"POSIX"} locale,
+In a locale other than the standard @code{"C"} or @code{"POSIX"} locales,
 this function may recognize additional locale-dependent syntax.
 
 If the string has valid syntax for a floating-point number but the value
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ because of underflow, @code{strtod} returns zero.  It also sets @code{errno}
 to @code{ERANGE} if there was overflow or underflow.
 
 Since the value zero which is returned in the error case is also a valid
-result the user should set the global variable @code{errno} to null
+result the user should set the global variable @code{errno} to zero
 before calling this function.  So one can test for failures after the
 call since all failures set @code{errno} to a non-zero value.
 @end deftypefun
diff --git a/manual/creature.texi b/manual/creature.texi
index babbb0ab05..423dce4544 100644
--- a/manual/creature.texi
+++ b/manual/creature.texi
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Portability Guide is included.  This is an superset of the POSIX.1 and
 POSIX.2 functionality and in fact @code{_POSIX_SOURCE} and
 @code{_POSIX_C_SOURCE} get automatically be defined.
 
-But as the great unifaction of all Unices there is also functionality
+But as the great unifiction of all Unices there is also functionality
 only available in BSD and SVID is included.
 
 If the macro @code{_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED} is also defined, even more
@@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ get very strange errors at run time.
 
 @comment (none)
 @comment GNU
-@defvr Macro _REENTRANT,_THREAD_SAFE
-If you define one this macro, reentrant versions of several functions get
+@defvr Macro _REENTRANT
+@defvrx Macro _THREAD_SAFE
+If you define one of these macros, reentrant versions of several functions get
 declared.  Some of the functions are specified in POSIX.1c but many others
 are only available on a few other systems or are unique to GNU libc.
 The problem is that the standardization of the thread safe C library
diff --git a/manual/users.texi b/manual/users.texi
index ce6d526b4a..9e397d3d4d 100644
--- a/manual/users.texi
+++ b/manual/users.texi
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
 This stream must correspond to a file in the same format as the standard
 password database file.
 
-If the funciton returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
 the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}).  If errors
 occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
 pointer.
@@ -914,9 +914,9 @@ result is placed in the user supplied structure pointed to by
 the elements of the result structure, are placed in the additional
 buffer or length @var{buflen} starting at @var{buffer}.
 
-If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with
 the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}).  If errors
-occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
+occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null
 pointer.
 @end deftypefun
 
@@ -1023,8 +1023,8 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
 
 If the return value is @code{0} the pointer returned in @var{result}
 points to the record which contains the wanted data (i.e., @var{result}
-contains the value @var{result_buf}).  In case the return value is non
-null there is no group in the data base with group ID @var{gid} or the
+contains the value @var{result_buf}).  If the return value is non-zero
+there is no group in the data base with group ID @var{gid} or the
 buffer @var{buffer} is too small to contain all the needed information.
 In the later case the global @var{errno} variable is set to
 @code{ERANGE}.
@@ -1054,8 +1054,8 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
 
 If the return value is @code{0} the pointer returned in @var{result}
 points to the record which contains the wanted data (i.e., @var{result}
-contains the value @var{result_buf}).  In case the return value is non
-null there is no group in the data base with group name @var{name} or the
+contains the value @var{result_buf}).  If the return value is non-zero
+there is no group in the data base with group name @var{name} or the
 buffer @var{buffer} is too small to contain all the needed information.
 In the later case the global @var{errno} variable is set to
 @code{ERANGE}.
@@ -1098,9 +1098,9 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
 This stream must correspond to a file in the same format as the standard
 group database file.
 
-If the funciton returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with
 the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}).  If errors
-occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
+occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null
 pointer.
 @end deftypefun
 
@@ -1135,9 +1135,9 @@ result is placed in the user supplied structure pointed to by
 the elements of the result structure, are placed in the additional
 buffer or length @var{buflen} starting at @var{buffer}.
 
-If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with
 the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}).  If errors
-occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
+occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null
 pointer.
 @end deftypefun
 
@@ -1186,8 +1186,8 @@ in either of the input services must have the following form:
 @end smallexample
 
 Any of the fields in the triple can be empty which means anything
-matches.  While describing te functions we will see that the opposite
-case is useful as well.  I.e., there shall be entries which will not
+matches.  While describing the functions we will see that the opposite
+case is useful as well.  I.e., there may be entries which will not
 match any input.  For entries like a name consisting of the single
 character @code{-} shall be used.
 
@@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ also true for the name @code{-} which should not match any other string
 otherwise.
 
 The return value is @code{1} if an entry matching the given triple is
-found in the netgroup.  The return value is @code{0} is the netgroup
+found in the netgroup.  The return value is @code{0} if the netgroup
 itself is not found, the netgroup does not contain the triple or
 internal errors occured.
 @end deftypefun