diff --git a/bin/ed/ed.1 b/bin/ed/ed.1
index 95ca8eeaf1d4..bfd6bc8cb934 100644
--- a/bin/ed/ed.1
+++ b/bin/ed/ed.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: ed.1,v 1.13 1995/03/21 09:04:38 cgd Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: ed.1,v 1.14 1996/11/11 00:11:36 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .TH ED 1 "21 May 1993"
 .SH NAME
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ and is legal wherever it makes sense.
 
 An address range is two addresses separated either by a comma or
 semi-colon. The value of the first address in a range cannot exceed the
-value of the the second.  If only one address is given in a range, then
+value of the second.  If only one address is given in a range, then
 the second address is set to the given address.  If an
 .IR n- tuple
 of addresses is given where
diff --git a/bin/stty/stty.1 b/bin/stty/stty.1
index 3d863a1026ae..5b6b0da1fd46 100644
--- a/bin/stty/stty.1
+++ b/bin/stty/stty.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: stty.1,v 1.10 1995/09/07 06:57:14 jtc Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: stty.1,v 1.11 1996/11/11 00:18:50 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ character.
 The
 .Dv KILL
 character shall (shall
-not) visually erase the
+not) visually erase
 the current line from the
 display, if possible.
 .It Cm echonl Pq Fl echonl
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/bc/bc.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/bc/bc.1
index f12931c55b02..979b25135f28 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/bc/bc.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/bc/bc.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" -*- nroff -*-
-.\"	$NetBSD: bc.1,v 1.4 1994/12/02 00:43:22 phil Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: bc.1,v 1.5 1996/11/11 00:08:06 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" bc.1 - the *roff document processor source for the bc manual
 .\"
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ precision, some numbers may not be printable on a single output line.
 These long numbers will be split across lines using the "\e" as the
 last character on a line.  The maximum number of characters printed
 per line is 70.  Due to the interactive nature of \fBbc\fR printing
-a number cause the side effect of assigning the printed value the the
+a number cause the side effect of assigning the printed value the
 special variable \fBlast\fR. This allows the user to recover the
 last value printed without having to retype the expression that
 printed the number.  Assigning to \fBlast\fR is legal and will
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ The print statement (an extension) provides another method of output.
 The "list" is a list of strings and expressions separated by commas.
 Each string or expression is printed in the order of the list.  No
 terminating newline is printed.  Expressions are evaluated and their
-value is printed and assigned the the variable \fBlast\fR. Strings
+value is printed and assigned the variable \fBlast\fR. Strings
 in the print statement are printed to the output and may contain
 special characters.  Special characters start with the backslash
 character (\e).  The special characters recognized by \fBbc\fR are
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tp.4 b/share/man/man4/tp.4
index e761caaa72c6..8cb75ba270ef 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tp.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: tp.4,v 1.4 1994/11/30 16:22:38 jtc Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: tp.4,v 1.5 1996/11/11 00:04:56 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ This parameter applies only to class 4.
 Boolean.
 [true]
 .br
-Boolean indicating the the use of checksums will be negotiated.
+Boolean indicating the use of checksums will be negotiated.
 This parameter applies only to class 4.
 .It Ar p_use_nxpd
 Reserved for future use.
diff --git a/share/man/man5/link.5 b/share/man/man5/link.5
index e27fdc7a9199..b496ddaf51c7 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/link.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/link.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: link.5,v 1.5 1996/01/09 00:14:32 pk Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: link.5,v 1.6 1996/11/11 00:05:05 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Paul Kranenburg
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ run under control of a debugger.
 .It Fa dd_sym_loaded
 Set by the run-time linker whenever it adds symbols by loading shared objects.
 .It Fa dd_bpt_addr
-The address were a breakpoint will be set by the the run-time linker to
+The address were a breakpoint will be set by the run-time linker to
 divert control to the debugger. This address is determined by the start-up
 module,
 .Em crt0.o,
diff --git a/share/man/man7/hostname.7 b/share/man/man7/hostname.7
index 8455fc33cbda..99e7a057665c 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/hostname.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/hostname.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: hostname.7,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:07:14 jtc Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: hostname.7,v 1.5 1996/11/11 00:05:10 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ then its parent domains with at least 2 name components (longest first).
 For example,
 in the domain CS.Berkeley.EDU, the name lithium.CChem will be checked first
 as lithium.CChem.CS.Berkeley.EDU and then as lithium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU.
-Lithium.CChem.EDU will not be tried, as the there is only one component
+Lithium.CChem.EDU will not be tried, as there is only one component
 remaining from the local domain.
 The search path can be changed from the default
 by a system-wide configuration file (see
diff --git a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 b/share/man/man9/malloc.9
index 9bc84a8ea236..4a775dd626f9 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/malloc.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/malloc.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.2 1996/10/30 05:29:54 lukem Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.3 1996/11/11 00:05:11 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Currently, only one flag is defined.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fa type
-argument broadly identifies the the kernel subsystem for which the allocated
+argument broadly identifies the kernel subsystem for which the allocated
 memory was needed, and is commonly used to maintain statistics about
 kernel memory usage. The following types are currently defined:
 .Pp
diff --git a/share/man/man9/physio.9 b/share/man/man9/physio.9
index 8c0a1e21873d..198766cb5712 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/physio.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/physio.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: physio.9,v 1.1 1996/06/15 20:47:27 pk Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: physio.9,v 1.2 1996/11/11 00:05:12 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ or
 A device specific routine called to determine the maximum transfer size
 that the device's strategy rouinte can handle.
 .It Fa uio
-The description of the the entire transfer as requested by the user process.
+The description of the entire transfer as requested by the user process.
 Currently, the results of passing a
 .Fa uio
 structure with the
diff --git a/usr.bin/cap_mkdb/cap_mkdb.1 b/usr.bin/cap_mkdb/cap_mkdb.1
index 8345b525b4f3..9541a0fae0f3 100644
--- a/usr.bin/cap_mkdb/cap_mkdb.1
+++ b/usr.bin/cap_mkdb/cap_mkdb.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: cap_mkdb.1,v 1.4 1995/03/26 03:59:36 glass Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: cap_mkdb.1,v 1.5 1996/11/11 00:10:58 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ that couldn't be expanded.
 .Pp
 The second type is a key which consists of one of the names from the
 first capability of the record with a data field consisting a special
-byte followed by the the first capability of the record.
+byte followed by the first capability of the record.
 The special byte is a 2.
 .Pp
 In normal operation names are looked up in the database, resulting
diff --git a/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 b/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1
index 3ac6e711871d..6d9ed520b2d9 100644
--- a/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1
+++ b/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	from: @(#)hexdump.1	5.12 (Berkeley) 7/27/91
-.\"	$Id: hexdump.1,v 1.3 1994/01/11 02:27:37 jtc Exp $
+.\"	$Id: hexdump.1,v 1.4 1996/11/11 00:12:49 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd July 27, 1991
 .Dt HEXDUMP 1
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ described in the C standard are supported:
 .Ed
 .El
 .Pp
-Hexdump also supports the the following additional conversion strings:
+Hexdump also supports the following additional conversion strings:
 .Bl -tag -width Fl
 .It Cm \&_a Ns Op Cm dox 
 Display the input offset, cumulative across input files, of the
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ The input is manipulated in ``blocks'', where a block is defined as the
 largest amount of data specified by any format string.
 Format strings interpreting less than an input block's worth of data,
 whose last format unit both interprets some number of bytes and does
-not have a specified iteration count, have the the iteration count
+not have a specified iteration count, have the iteration count
 incremented until the entire input block has been processed or there
 is not enough data remaining in the block to satisfy the format string.
 .Pp
diff --git a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index 4231c766543b..fa0f754fd040 100644
--- a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 .\" This file contains changes from the Open Software Foundation.
 .\"
 .\"	from: @(#)newsyslog.8
-.\"	$NetBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.7 1996/09/27 01:56:55 thorpej Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.8 1996/11/10 23:58:22 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright 1988, 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 .\" 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ account when determining when to trim the log file.
 The
 .I number of hours
 entry specifies the time separation between the trimming of the log
-file.  If this field is replaced by a ``*'', the the number of hours
+file.  If this field is replaced by a ``*'', the number of hours
 since the last time the log was trimmed will not be taken into
 consideration.
 .PP
diff --git a/usr.bin/quota/quota.1 b/usr.bin/quota/quota.1
index bd3b3df3805c..95ed34ee5c74 100644
--- a/usr.bin/quota/quota.1
+++ b/usr.bin/quota/quota.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	from: @(#)quota.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
-.\"	$Id: quota.1,v 1.5 1996/02/01 02:33:52 jtc Exp $
+.\"	$Id: quota.1,v 1.6 1996/11/11 00:15:47 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 6, 1993
 .Dt QUOTA 1
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Only the super-user may use the
 flag and the optional
 .Ar user
 argument to view the limits of other users.
-Non-super-users can use the the
+Non-super-users can use the
 .Fl g
 flag and optional
 .Ar group