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diff --git a/man2/wait.2 b/man2/wait.2
index 37f3591eef4b693a1f9f7b95365a5a4c18f5d7f9..ebc4ba2c438e2e7954d3a7a29d39df190575468e 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/wait.2
+++ b/man2/wait.2
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 .\" 2004-11-11, mtk
 .\"    Added waitid(2); added WCONTINUED and WIFCONTINUED()
 .\"    Added text on SA_NOCLDSTOP
-.\"    Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behaviour
+.\"    Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behavior
 .\"    Much other text rewritten
 .\" 2005-05-10, mtk, __W* flags can't be used with waitid()
 .\"
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ child specified by
 argument has changed state.
 By default,
 .BR waitpid ()
-waits only for terminated children, but this behaviour is modifiable
+waits only for terminated children, but this behavior is modifiable
 via the
 .I options
 argument, as described below.
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ will block until all children have terminated, and then fail with
 .I errno
 set to
 .BR ECHILD .
-(The original POSIX standard left the behaviour of setting
+(The original POSIX standard left the behavior of setting
 .B SIGCHLD
 to
 .B SIG_IGN
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ then the child exits immediately,
 using the integer supplied on the command line as the exit status.
 The parent process executes a loop that monitors the child using
 .BR waitpid (2),
-and uses the W*() macros described above to analyse the wait status value.
+and uses the W*() macros described above to analyze the wait status value.
 
 The following shell session demonstrates the use of the program:
 .nf