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diff --git a/gnu/packages/glib.scm b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
index 0a42c0d4c1..9076643221 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/glib.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
(synopsis "Message bus for inter-process communication (IPC)")
(description
"D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to
-talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus
+talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus
helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to
code a \"single instance\" application or daemon, and to launch
applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
@@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as \"new hardware
device added\" or \"printer queue changed\") and a
per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user
-applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general
+applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general
one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any two apps
to communicate directly (without going through the message bus
-daemon). Currently the communicating applications are on one computer,
+daemon). Currently the communicating applications are on one computer,
or through unencrypted TCP/IP suitable for use behind a firewall with
shared NFS home directories.")
(license license:gpl2+))) ; or Academic Free License 2.1
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ bindings to call into the C library.")
(home-page "https://launchpad.net/intltool/+download")
(synopsis "Tools to centralise translations of different file formats")
(description
- "intltool is a set of tools to centralise translations of many different
+ "Intltool is a set of tools to centralise translations of many different
file formats using GNU gettext-compatible PO files.
The intltool collection can be used to do these things:
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ The intltool collection can be used to do these things:
source files (.c, .h) in po/$(PACKAGE).pot.
Merge back the translations from .po files into .xml, .desktop and
- oaf files. This merge step will happen at build resp. installation time.")
+ oaf files. This merge step will happen at build resp. installation time.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
(define itstool
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ by GDBus included in Glib.")
(home-page "http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/")
(synopsis "Type-safe callback system for standard C++")
(description
- "libsigc++ implements a type-safe callback system for standard C++. It
+ "Libsigc++ implements a type-safe callback system for standard C++. It
allows you to define signals and to connect those signals to any callback
function, either global or a member function, regardless of whether it is
static or virtual.
@@ -405,6 +405,6 @@ has an ease of use unmatched by other C++ callback libraries.")
(home-page "http://gtkmm.org/")
(synopsis "C++ interface to the GLib library")
(description
- "glibmm provides a C++ programming interface to the part of GLib that are
+ "Glibmm provides a C++ programming interface to the part of GLib that are
useful for C++.")
(license license:lgpl2.1+)))