idly searched for grammar errors with this
git grep '\<a [iouea]' |grep -vE 'a (use|one|uni|usage)'
found a few:
>From 44000e4d8890bf2bdcdfe448b035836fda36b5d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:52:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix grammar in comments and documentation
* automake.in:
* doc/automake.texi:
* lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm:
* tests/ext2.test:
---
ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
automake.in | 2 +-
doc/automake.texi | 2 +-
lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm | 2 +-
tests/ext2.test | 4 ++--
5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8f4b36c..c25976a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-04-10 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
+
+ fix grammar in comments and documentation
+ * automake.in:
+ * doc/automake.texi:
+ * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm:
+ * tests/ext2.test:
+
2009-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de>
Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>
diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index 10927a1..6818b59 100755
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ sub handle_options
# Return a $(variable) that contains all possible values
# $varname can take.
# If the VAR wasn't defined conditionally, return $(VAR).
-# Otherwise we create a am__VAR_DIST variable which contains
+# Otherwise we create an am__VAR_DIST variable which contains
# all possible values, and return $(am__VAR_DIST).
sub shadow_unconditionally ($$)
{
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 77beee3..f3f3874 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -10107,7 +10107,7 @@ of the a...@. You should avoid using them, as they
could change from one
version to the other (even in bug fix releases, if this helps to fix a
bug).
-If it turns out you need to use such a undocumented feature, contact
+If it turns out you need to use such an undocumented feature, contact
@email{automake@@gnu.org} and try to get it documented and exercised by
the test-suite.
diff --git a/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm b/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
index 436a904..c05c414 100644
--- a/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
+++ b/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ Parse the argument of C<--warning=CATEGORY> or
C<-WCATEGORY>.
C<$OPTIONS> is C<"--warning"> or C<"-W">, C<$ARGUMENT> is C<CATEGORY>.
-This is meant to be used as a argument to C<Getopt>.
+This is meant to be used as an argument to C<Getopt>.
=cut
diff --git a/tests/ext2.test b/tests/ext2.test
index 8374a2a..fa06d63 100755
--- a/tests/ext2.test
+++ b/tests/ext2.test
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
#!/bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2002, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ $AUTOMAKE
grep '\.o:' Makefile.in > rules
cat rules
-# Here is a example of bogus output. The rules are output several
+# Here is an example of bogus output. The rules are output several
# times.
#| .cc.o:
#| d.o: sub/d.cc
--
1.6.2.rc1.285.gc5f54
