Grammar fixes and such

Signed-off-by: Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com>

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 48334cb7f9215760f53ceadca0d5acaaceb48eaa..50701321e21db1c9cd9c1916752b978a899423ac 100644 (file)
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Contribute
 ----------
 
 #. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
-#. Fork `the repository`_ on Github to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or branch off of it).
+#. Fork `the repository`_ on GitHub to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or branch off of it).
 #. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
 #. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_.
 

diff --git a/docs/dev/todo.rst b/docs/dev/todo.rst
index dcc06f260440eaa56f524b80df870b607a9461f5..1f2216b5714647d0fc269cc088d12ca519245286 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/dev/todo.rst
+++ b/docs/dev/todo.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Requests is under active development, and contributions are more than welcome!
 #. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a bug.
    There is a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very
    familiar with the codebase yet.
-#. Fork `the repository <https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests>`_ on Github and start making your
+#. Fork `the repository <https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests>`_ on GitHub and start making your
    changes to a new branch.
 #. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed.
 #. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :)

diff --git a/docs/user/advanced.rst b/docs/user/advanced.rst
index 246313fc52c79b79cfe566f7dfa5b3324d98a5d1..de9beaa98681391bf1b0057deba92050b73d5fd0 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/user/advanced.rst
+++ b/docs/user/advanced.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Requests can verify SSL certificates for HTTPS requests, just like a web browser
     >>> requests.get('https://kennethreitz.com', verify=True)
     requests.exceptions.SSLError: hostname 'kennethreitz.com' doesn't match either of '*.herokuapp.com', 'herokuapp.com'
 
-I don't have SSL setup on this domain, so it fails. Excellent. Github does though::
+I don't have SSL setup on this domain, so it fails. Excellent. GitHub does though::
 
     >>> requests.get('https://github.com', verify=True)
     <Response [200]>

diff --git a/docs/user/authentication.rst b/docs/user/authentication.rst
index 6c213eaa22654f0aa03999703a09c2a8f72a316f..4b29007cb5f54b2dc105332c3e3f68700ba9b32f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/user/authentication.rst
+++ b/docs/user/authentication.rst
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ authentication. Some of the best have been brought together under the
 - NTLM_
 
 If you want to use any of these forms of authentication, go straight to their
-Github page and follow the instructions.
+GitHub page and follow the instructions.
 
 
 New Forms of Authentication

diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index 6e3e08d397596d7d1e8a92888bb1f627d7714cd1..86e42d0635a74b0c9435c4551e53e267a1d92e45 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Requests will automatically perform location redirection while using the GET
 and OPTIONS verbs.
 
 GitHub redirects all HTTP requests to HTTPS. We can use the ``history`` method
-of the Response object to track redirection. Let's see what Github does::
+of the Response object to track redirection. Let's see what GitHub does::
 
     >>> r = requests.get('http://github.com')
     >>> r.url
@@ -353,8 +353,9 @@ of the Response object to track redirection. Let's see what Github does::
     >>> r.history
     [<Response [301]>]
 
-The :class:`Response.history` list contains a list of the
-:class:`Request` objects that were created in order to complete the request. The list is sorted from the oldest to the most recent request.
+The :class:`Response.history` list contains the :class:`Request` objects that
+were created in order to complete the request. The list is sorted from the
+oldest to the most recent request.
 
 If you're using GET or OPTIONS, you can disable redirection handling with the
 ``allow_redirects`` parameter::
@@ -389,7 +390,7 @@ seconds with the ``timeout`` parameter::
 
 .. admonition:: Note:
 
-    ``timeout`` only effects the connection process itself, not the
+    ``timeout`` only affects the connection process itself, not the
     downloading of the response body.