fix some spelling typos and standardize some English spellings

(to be consistent)

diff --git a/FAQ.xml b/FAQ.xml
index cd216e6ec56a329c1c24e954073ad882e48b8c8d..8bcd677eb182a52c70a94c3a9fde4db439d36315 100644 (file)
--- a/FAQ.xml
+++ b/FAQ.xml
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ view "chaos" chaos {
       <answer>
        <para>
          This may be a clock skew problem.  Check that the the clocks
-         on the client and server are properly synchronised (e.g.,
+         on the client and server are properly synchronized (e.g.,
          using ntp).
        </para>
       </answer>

diff --git a/bin/dig/dig.docbook b/bin/dig/dig.docbook
index a8925977499e3659bb3dce0c3ab7af753ed6c730..7230935947a83b239f1c0f90a755582f6a6c4981 100644 (file)
--- a/bin/dig/dig.docbook
+++ b/bin/dig/dig.docbook
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Send the query to a non-standard port on the server,
-           instead of the defaut port 53. This option would be used
+           instead of the default port 53. This option would be used
            to test a name server that has been configured to listen
            for queries on a non-standard port number.
          </para>

diff --git a/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml b/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml
index 64f5613918ee374166d511ab52e06c44a3cfa24b..41af8159233bd65f5579b4edad70b3789a919544 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml
+++ b/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ $ORIGIN 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.
                  followed by '%' to represent percents.
                </para>
                <para>
-                 The behaviour is exactly the same as
+                 The behavior is exactly the same as
                  <varname>size_spec</varname>, but
                  <varname>size_or_percent</varname> allows also
                  to specify a positive integer value followed by
@@ -9262,7 +9262,7 @@ avoid-v6-udp-ports { 40000; range 50000 60000; };
                  may be sent while servicing a recursive query.
                  If more queries are sent, the recursive query
                  is terminated and returns SERVFAIL. Queries to
-                 look up top level comains such as "com" and "net"
+                 look up top level domains such as "com" and "net"
                  and the DNS root zone are exempt from this limitation.
                  The default is 75.
                </para>
@@ -10123,7 +10123,7 @@ deny-answer-aliases { "example.net"; };
                  <para>
                    A special form of local data is a CNAME whose target is a
                    wildcard such as *.example.com.
-                   It is used as if were an ordinary CNAME after the astrisk (*)
+                   It is used as if were an ordinary CNAME after the asterisk (*)
                    has been replaced with the query name.
                    The purpose for this special form is query logging in the
                    walled garden's authority DNS server.
@@ -12615,7 +12615,7 @@ example.com. NS ns2.example.net.
                    unsigned zone is transferred in or loaded from
                    disk and a signed version of the zone is served,
                    with possibly, a different serial number.  This
-                   behaviour is disabled by default.
+                   behavior is disabled by default.
                  </para>
                </listitem>
              </varlistentry>