Merge pull request #5786 from ZoeB/grammar

Tidy grammar

src/devices/bus/rs232/hlemouse.cpp

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     report can be identified by a fixed pattern in the five most
     significant bits.
 
-    Reports are five bytes long.  The first byte contains the the button
+    Reports are five bytes long.  The first byte contains the button
     state; the second and fourth bytes contain X delta; the third and
     fifth bytes contain Y delta.  The two delta values for each axis
     should be summed.  Delta values range from -120 to 127 to prevent

src/devices/sound/astrocde.cpp

@@ -42,15 +42,14 @@
 ************************************************************
 
     The device has active high(!) SO strobes triggered by
-    read accesses, which transfer data from the the 8 SI
+    read accesses, which transfer data from the 8 SI lines
-    lines to the bus. Logically SO0-7 and SI0-7 ought to
+    to the bus. Logically SO0-7 and SI0-7 ought to be hooked
-    be hooked up to the same input matrix, but this only
+    up to the same input matrix, but this only appears to be
-    appears to be the case with the Astrocade home systems.
+    the case with the Astrocade home systems.  The arcade
-    The arcade games instead channel the SI inputs through
+    games instead channel the SI inputs through a quartet of
-    a quartet of MC14539B (pin-compatible with 74153) CMOS
+    MC14539B (pin-compatible with 74153) CMOS multiplexers
-    multiplexers and connect the SO strobes to unrelated
+    and connect the SO strobes to unrelated outputs which
-    outputs which generally use the upper 8 address bits
+    generally use the upper 8 address bits as data.
-    as data.
 
 ***********************************************************/
 

src/emu/devfind.h

@@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ public:
 	/// \brief Attempt discovery
 	///
 	/// Concrete derived classes must implement this member function.
-	/// Should return false if the the object is required but not found,
+	/// Should return false if the object is required but not found, or
-	/// or true otherwise (the report_missing member function can assist
+	/// true otherwise (the report_missing member function can assist
 	/// in implementing this behaviour).
 	/// \param [in] isvalidation Pass true if this is a dry run (i.e. no
 	///   intention to actually start the device), or false otherwise.

src/mame/audio/laserbat.cpp

@@ -36,24 +36,24 @@ WRITE8_MEMBER(laserbat_state_base::csound2_w)
     The Laser Battle/Lazarian sound board has a SN76477 CSG, two TMS3615
     tone synthesisers, and a TDA1010 power amplifier.  It receives
     commands from the game board over a 16-bit unidirectional data bus.
-    The CPU cannot write all sixteen lines atomically, it write to lines
+    The CPU cannot write all sixteen lines atomically, it writes to
-    1-8 as one group and 9-16 as another group.
+    lines 1-8 as one group and 9-16 as another group.
 
-    The game board makes the the audio output from the first S2636 PVI
+    The game board makes the audio output from the first S2636 PVI (5E)
-    (5E) available on a pin at the sound board interface connector, but
+    available on a pin at the sound board interface connector, but it
-    it isn't routed anywhere, so you won't hear it.
+    isn't routed anywhere, so you won't hear it.
 
     The TMS3615 at 05 is clocked at 250kHz (4MHz crystal oscillator
     divided by 16), and its divide-by-two output is used to clock the
     TMS3615 at 04.  This gives a base 16' note of C3.  The combined 8'
-    or 16' outputs are selectable by jumper, allowing board to be
+    or 16' outputs are selectable by jumper, allowing the board to be
     switched between two octaves.  There's no indication of which octave
     would have been selected in the Lazarian manual.
 
     There's a filter network between the TMS3615 outputs and the power
     amplifier with several parameters controllable from the game board.
 
-    The audio output of the SN76477 isn't actually used.  Rather the
+    The audio output of the SN76477 isn't actually used.  Rather, the
     signal from before the output amplifier is taken and used to gate
     distortion elements in the analog filter network.
 

src/mame/drivers/alphatpx.cpp

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
     P2U
     ===
-    For paging via port 0x78A, a 16K RAM card with RAM at 0x0000 and 0x3fff and the banking logic (see above) is added to the the standard 48K memory card.
+    For paging via port 0x78A, a 16K RAM card with RAM at 0x0000 and 0x3fff and the banking logic (see above) is added to the standard 48K memory card.
     P2S, P2U: 2x 320K, double sided, 40 tracks, 16 sectors/track, 256 bytes/sector floppy disk drives
 
     P3, P4

src/mame/drivers/eispc.cpp

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  *   Ericsson Information Systems PC "compatibles"
  *
- * The Ericsson PC was the the first original Ericsson design for the office PC market replacing the
+ * The Ericsson PC was the first original Ericsson design for the office PC market replacing the
  * Step/One which was an OEM:ed clone of the Matsushita Mybrain 3000 (see myb3k.cpp driver).
  *
  **************************************************************

src/mame/video/seta2.cpp

@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ WRITE16_MEMBER(seta2_state::vregs_w)
 			int vpos = m_rasterposition;
 
 			// in the vblank it specifies line 0, the first raster interrupt then specifies line 0 again before the subsequent ones use the real line numbers?
-			// It seems more likely the the raster IRQ stays asserted for the entire line, thus triggering a second interrupt unless the line number is changed?
+			// It seems more likely that the raster IRQ stays asserted for the entire line, thus triggering a second interrupt unless the line number is changed?
 			if (m_rasterposition == m_screen->vpos()) hpos = m_screen->hpos() + 0x100;
 			//logerror("setting raster to %d %d\n", vpos, hpos);
 			m_raster_timer->adjust(m_screen->time_until_pos(vpos, hpos), 0);