nitpicks

5 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 8cf416b59d..fe16386ea7 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1439,7 +1439,7 @@ but not higher.  Code points above 0xFFFF_FFFF require larger than a
 =item %s: Command not found
 
 (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> or another shell
-shell instead of Perl.  Check the #! line, or manually feed your script
+instead of Perl.  Check the #! line, or manually feed your script
 into Perl yourself.  The #! line at the top of your file could look like
 
   #!/usr/bin/perl -w
@@ -1478,7 +1478,7 @@ L<charnames/CUSTOM TRANSLATORS>) returned an undefined value.
 
 (F) The parser found inconsistencies while attempting to define an
 overloaded constant.  Perhaps you forgot to load the corresponding
-L<overload> pragma?.
+L<overload> pragma?
 
 =item Constant is not %s reference
 
@@ -6464,7 +6464,7 @@ You need to add either braces or blanks to disambiguate.
 
 (D deprecated) You tried to use a hash as a reference, as in
 C<< %foo->{"bar"} >> or C<< %$ref->{"hello"} >>.  Versions of perl <= 5.6.1
-used to allow this syntax, but shouldn't have.   It is now
+used to allow this syntax, but shouldn't have.  It is now
 deprecated, and will be removed in a future version.
 
 =item Using an array as a reference is deprecated
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index b8af8ff885..9a5ee74d64 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3259,8 +3259,8 @@ A warning may be produced in a future version.
 
 See L<perlipc/"Signals"> for more details.
 
-On some platforms such as Windows where the fork() system call is not available.
-Perl can be built to emulate fork() at the interpreter level.
+On some platforms such as Windows where the fork() system call is not
+available, Perl can be built to emulate fork() at the interpreter level.
 This emulation has limitations related to kill that have to be considered,
 for code running on Windows and in code intended to be portable.
 
diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod
index 1b2ebeb549..914281fab2 100644
--- a/pod/perllocale.pod
+++ b/pod/perllocale.pod
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ locale will be a ISO8859-1.  Use POSIX character classes instead.
 
 Another problem with this approach is that operations that cross the
 single byte/multiple byte boundary are not well-defined, and so are
-disallowed.  (This boundary is between the codepoints at 255/256.).
+disallowed.  (This boundary is between the codepoints at 255/256.)
 For example, lower casing LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS (U+0178)
 should return LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS (U+00FF).  But in the
 Greek locale, for example, there is no character at 0xFF, and Perl
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index c6aa81c6c5..acf270221d 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ randomized to protect against local and remote attacks against Perl
 code. By manually setting a seed, this protection may be partially or
 completely lost.
 
-See L<perlsec/"Algorithmic Complexity Attacks"> and L</PERL_PERTURB_KEYS>
+See L<perlsec/"Algorithmic Complexity Attacks">, L</PERL_PERTURB_KEYS>, and
 L</PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG> for more information.
 
 =item PERL_PERTURB_KEYS
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 039a098bc1..4b6bb74cf5 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ to return a defined value when the pattern was compiled or executed with
 the C</p> modifier.  In Perl v5.20, the C</p> modifier does nothing, so
 C<${^PREMATCH}> does the same thing as C<$PREMATCH>.
 
-This variable was added in Perl v5.10.0
+This variable was added in Perl v5.10.0.
 
 This variable is read-only and dynamically-scoped.