5 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1 b/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1
index f276480e09a..0927ab30768 100644
--- a/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1
+++ b/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: learn.1,v 1.2 1998/09/30 16:31:22 ian Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: learn.1,v 1.3 1999/05/12 13:26:51 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Ian Darwin
 .\"
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ user under the lesson file directory; this version creates
 a directory under /tmp for each user.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The program originated in Seventh Edition UNIX.
-A lightly-revised version of the program was released by
+A lightly revised version of the program was released by
 Lucent/Bell Laboratories in 1997, and
 modernized for OpenBSD 2.4 by Ian Darwin, who also wrote this man page,
 and Paul Janzen.
diff --git a/usr.bin/lex/flex.1 b/usr.bin/lex/flex.1
index a534ddd9459..8deaae0e31c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/lex/flex.1
+++ b/usr.bin/lex/flex.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: flex.1,v 1.5 1998/08/17 03:20:23 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: flex.1,v 1.6 1999/05/12 13:26:51 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .TH FLEX 1 "April 1995" "Version 2.5"
 .SH NAME
@@ -2569,7 +2569,7 @@ changes the default
 .I "yy"
 prefix used by
 .I flex
-for all globally-visible variable and function names to instead be
+for all globally visible variable and function names to instead be
 .I prefix.
 For example,
 .B \-Pfoo
@@ -2618,7 +2618,7 @@ option also renames
 so you now
 .I must
 either
-provide your own (appropriately-named) version of the routine for your
+provide your own (appropriately named) version of the routine for your
 scanner, or use
 .B %option noyywrap,
 as linking with
diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index 8cb8a763fa7..e8a9135b522 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.22 1998/11/19 23:23:49 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.23 1999/05/12 13:26:51 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Identical to the
 command.
 .It Ic alias
 .Pq Ic a
-With no arguments, prints out all currently-defined aliases.
+With no arguments, prints out all currently defined aliases.
 With one
 argument, prints out that alias.
 With more than one argument, creates
diff --git a/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1 b/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1
index b103f00a743..10ef0cd0535 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1
+++ b/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: sup.1,v 1.5 1998/09/05 17:41:47 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: sup.1,v 1.6 1999/05/12 13:26:52 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Carnegie Mellon University
 .\" All Rights Reserved.
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
 .\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 .\" HISTORY
 .\" $Log: sup.1,v $
+.\" Revision 1.6  1999/05/12 13:26:52  aaron
+.\" grammar police: do not hyphenate compound words that act as adjectives if the
+.\" first word ends in -ly
+.\"
+.\" i.e., fully-qualified, newly-created, globally-visible, etc. are wrong
+.\"
 .\" Revision 1.5  1998/09/05 17:41:47  deraadt
 .\" more man page repairs; aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca
 .\"
@@ -665,7 +671,7 @@ prefix,list,scan and host will be used.
 This file, created by
 .IR supscan ,
 is the list of filenames that correspond to the instructions in the
-list file.  The scan file is only used for frequently-updated file
+list file.  The scan file is only used for frequently updated file
 collections; it makes the file server run much faster.  See
 .IR supservers (8)
 for more information.
diff --git a/usr.bin/which/which.1 b/usr.bin/which/which.1
index 92adccd854f..7cc52af8977 100644
--- a/usr.bin/which/which.1
+++ b/usr.bin/which/which.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: which.1,v 1.8 1998/10/30 00:24:43 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: which.1,v 1.9 1999/05/12 13:26:52 aaron Exp $
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ uses the environment variable
 as a colon-separated list of directories in which to find executables.
 If
 .Ev PATH
-is not set, and the given name is not a fully-qualified
+is not set, and the given name is not a fully qualified
 or relative pathname,
 .Nm
 will fail.