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Minor wording improvements. 

Note these do not alter anything about what the man page specifies,
just say a couple of things in a slightly better way, hence no Dd
update accompanies this change (deliberately).
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.\" $NetBSD: sh.1,v 1.247 2022/09/16 17:29:21 kre Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: sh.1,v 1.248 2022/09/16 17:32:18 kre Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ is correct, as desired, use:
Otherwise if
.Ev ENV
appears to contain a command substitution,
which is not performed here,
which is never performed here,
or if there were no expansions to expand, the value of
.Ev ENV
is used as the file name.
@ -258,8 +258,7 @@ The
.Ic set Fl o
name is provided next to the single letter option in
the description below.
Some options have only a long name, they are described after
the flag options, they are used with
Some options have only a long name, and are used with
.Fl o
or
.Cm +o
@ -270,7 +269,7 @@ Those are listed in the table below after the options
with a one letter, flag, equivalent.
.Pp
Other options described are for the command line only.
Specifying a dash
Specifying using a dash (or minus)
.Dq Cm \-
turns the option on, while using a plus
.Dq Cm +
@ -411,7 +410,8 @@ For more details see the section
.Sx LINENO
below.
.It Fl m Em monitor
Turn on job control (set automatically at shell startup when interactive).
Turn on job control (set automatically at shell startup,
if not mentioned on the command line, when interactive).
.It Fl n Em noexec
Read and parse commands, but do not execute them.
This is useful for checking the syntax of shell scripts.
@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ the two arguments:
Expands to the number of positional parameters.
.It Dv \&?
Expands to the exit status of the most recent pipeline.
.It Dv \- No (hyphen, or minus)
.It Dv \- No (dash, hyphen, or minus)
Expands to the current option flags (the single-letter
option names concatenated into a string) as specified on
invocation, by the set built-in command, or implicitly