Fix a/an usage

diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2
index 73941ab4d3911764cb6b9bca65ab58bbd5b5521f..dddc7aafeb787bfc87942ee55c51afbf0411aba5 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/epoll_wait.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ struct epoll_event {
 
 The
 .I data
-of each returned structure will contain the same data the user set with a
+of each returned structure will contain the same data the user set with an
 .BR epoll_ctl (2)
 .RB ( EPOLL_CTL_ADD , EPOLL_CTL_MOD )
 while the

diff --git a/man3/ecvt.3 b/man3/ecvt.3
index 880b33afeb43c07d1c22cd86ca0b2790998d6d0a..eeb7ebfc95ddfb2e027e992e6fe9b1fb6c4bdef2 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/ecvt.3
+++ b/man3/ecvt.3
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
 The
 .BR ecvt ()
 function converts \fInumber\fP to a null-terminated
-string of \fIndigits\fP digits (where \fIndigits\fP is reduced to an
+string of \fIndigits\fP digits (where \fIndigits\fP is reduced to a
 system-specific limit determined by the precision of a
 .IR double ),
 and returns a pointer to the string.

diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3
index 3dfe6ba5fec9787d2e91022c137967a1e37eff56..c35509efbacf56690ef5e723228132687889d492 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/scanf.3
+++ b/man3/scanf.3
@@ -294,9 +294,9 @@ or
 .B j
 As for
 .BR h ,
-but the next pointer is a pointer to a
+but the next pointer is a pointer to an
 .I intmax_t
-or
+or a
 .IR uintmax_t .
 This modifier was introduced in C99.
 .TP

diff --git a/man4/rtc.4 b/man4/rtc.4
index c5edf1e6f6acc35702c2c92832c02c2f9e0afd50..ea87bcd564468ed8698881361d5503ee5bf29eb3 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/rtc.4
+++ b/man4/rtc.4
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ The periodic interrupt must be separately enabled or disabled using the
 requests.
 The third
 .BR ioctl (2)
-argument is a
+argument is an
 .I "unsigned long\ *"
-or a
+or an
 .IR "unsigned long" ,
 respectively.
 The value is the frequency in interrupts per second.