maint: fix various typos in recent commits

* NEWS: Grammar fixes.
* HACKING: Likewise.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 4cf86540c1087dfb6242fe2a880ba455ce364703..516aaafb881bda63e2b5cf2d98cac15034c0ce4a 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -601,8 +601,8 @@ option is always to improve tests.  You never know what you might
 uncover when you improve test coverage, and even if you don't find
 any bugs your contribution is sure to be appreciated.
 
-A good way to quickly assess current test coverage for standard
-and root only tests is to follow test steps (requires lcov to be installed):
+A good way to quickly assess current test coverage, for standard
+and root only tests, is to follow these steps (requires lcov to be installed):
 
   # Do a standard run as the current user
   make -j$(nproc) coverage

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b4614d56acf1a1b2cc0d52f6b2cbe8fbfabe7db6..30ec6f86606ce700fc8e685d35059ce6f0fc575e 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   consistently rather than sometimes outputting "6.00001 s".
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
 
-  df non longer interacts with excluded file system types, so for example
+  df no longer interacts with excluded file system types, so for example
   specifying -x nfs will no longer hang with problematic nfs mounts.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.21]
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   ignoring some non checksum lines.  This also affects sha*sum and b2sum.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.14]
 
-  tail -F 'dir/file' now monitored even when 'dir' is replaced.
+  tail -F 'dir/file' is now monitored even when 'dir' is replaced.
   [bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
 
 ** New features