language cleanups

- remove contractions - write "hostname" and "website" per project standard - and some more Closes #359
curl · Jul 2, 2024 · 0cf385b · 0cf385b
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diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Header set Content-Security-Policy: "default-src 'self' curl.haxx.se www.curl.se
 # Google Custom Search requires unsafe-eval & unsafe-inline in the CSP which
 # knocks a giant hole in the protection a CSP provides. Therefore, only use
 # that on the pages where custom search is used to mitigate it somewhat. The
-# search page that shows up on the 404 error page won't be matched by this,
+# search page that shows up on the 404 error page will not be matched by this,
 # however. The following link is supposed to be updated when Google fixes this
 # CSP issue and this hack can be removed:
 # https://support.google.com/programmable-search/thread/60663049?hl=en

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # curl-www
 
-This is (most of) the curl.se web site contents. It mostly builds static
+This is (most of) the curl.se website contents. It mostly builds static
 HTML files that are preprocessed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-The web site is a on old custom made setup that mostly builds static HTML
+The website is a on old custom made setup that mostly builds static HTML
 files from a set of source files using (GNU) `make`. The sources files are
 preprocessed with what is basically a souped-up C preprocessor called `fcpp`
 and a set of `perl` scripts. The manpages get converted to HTML with
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ Make sure the following tools are in your $PATH.
 
 ## Build
 
-Once you've cloned the Git repo the first time, invoke `sh bootstrap.sh` once
+Once you have cloned the Git repo the first time, invoke `sh bootstrap.sh` once
 to get a symlink and some some initial local files setup, and then you can
-build the web site locally by invoking make in the source root tree.
+build the website locally by invoking make in the source root tree.
 
-Note that this doesn't make you a complete web site mirror, as some scripts
+Note that this does not make you a complete website mirror, as some scripts
 and files are only available on the real actual site, but should give you
 enough to let you load most HTML pages locally.
 

diff --git a/_404.html b/_404.html
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 <p><b>This resource is gone!</b>
 <p>
   Whatever you hoped you were going to get when you asked for this particular
-  URL, it isn't here. We may have removed some old cruft and hope that you
+  URL, it is not here. We may have removed some old cruft and hope that you
   will find your way to the new content instead, you may have pasted a bad URL
   or we may have screwed up somewhere when we edited content on the site.
-  We just can't tell.
+  We just cannot tell.
 
 <p>
   A humble suggestion is that you start over on

diff --git a/_about.html b/_about.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #include "_doctype.html"
 <html>
-<head> <title>curl - About curl Web Site</title>
+<head> <title>curl - About curl website</title>
 #include "css.t"
 </head>
 
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@
 #include "docs/_menu.html"
 
 WHERE3(Docs, "/docs/", Project, "/docs/projdocs.html", About)
-TITLE(About the curl Web Site)
+TITLE(About the curl website)
 <div class="relatedbox">
 <b>Related:</b>
 <br><a href="/docs/">Online Docs</a>
 <br><a href="/mirror/">Mirrors</a>
 </div>
 <p>
- This web site is dedicated to covering curl, libcurl and related issues only.
+ This website is dedicated to covering curl, libcurl and related issues only.
 
 <p>
- If you have any complaints, ideas or suggestions for this <b>web site</b>,
- don't hesitate to mail feedback to <a
+ If you have any complaints, ideas or suggestions for this <b>website</b>,
+ do not hesitate to mail feedback to <a
  href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or post it on the <a
  href="//curl.se/mail/">curl-users mailing list</a>. We do make a
  serious effort to please our audience.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  proper <a href="/mail/">curl mailing list</a>.
 <p>
 
-SUBTITLE(The curl web site contents are...)
+SUBTITLE(The curl website contents are...)
 <ul>
 
  <li> maintained and edited by the team. If you want to join in and help out
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@
 
 SUBTITLE(Zero tracking)
 <ul>
- <li> We serve no ads on any curl related web site.
- <li> We run no analytics scripts on any curl related web sites
- <li> We don't log web site visitors.
+ <li> We serve no ads on any curl related website.
+ <li> We run no analytics scripts on any curl related websites
+ <li> We do not log website visitors.
 </ul>
 
 SUBTITLE(Technologies used to build the site)
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@
 SUBTITLE(Emails and Spam)
 <p>
  We regularly display email addresses on this site by replacing the '@' sign with a
- textual version.  Research has shown that when we publish addresses in
- plaintext, we get a whole lot more spam.  Sorry for the inconvenience.
+ textual version. Research has shown that when we publish addresses in
+ plaintext, we get a whole lot more spam. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 
 #include "_footer.html"
 </body>

diff --git a/_book.html b/_book.html
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 <p>
   Learn how to use curl. How to use libcurl. How to build them from source or
-  perhaps how the curl project accepts contributions. There's something for
+  perhaps how the curl project accepts contributions. There is something for
   everyone in this, from the casual first-time users to the experienced
   libcurl hackers.
 <p>