badwords: fix issues found in scripts and other files

Single pass, not enforced.

Also:
- pyspelling.words: drop `web page`

Closes #19572

.github/labeler.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # the files fit into the category, and the any-glob-to-any-file ones are added
 # as long as any file matches. The first ones are for "major" categories (the
 # PR is all about that one topic, like HTTP/3), while the second ones are
-# "addendums" that give useful information about a PR that's really mostly
+# "addendums" that give useful information about a PR that is really mostly
 # something else (e.g. CI if the PR also touches CI jobs).
 #
 # N.B. any-glob-to-all-files is misnamed; it acts like one-glob-to-all-files.

.github/scripts/cleancmd.pl

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use warnings;
 my @asyms;
 
 open(S, "<./docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions")
-    || die "can't find symbols-in-versions";
+    || die "cannot find symbols-in-versions";
 while(<S>) {
     if(/^([^ ]*) /) {
         push @asyms, $1;
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ my @aopts = (
     );
 
 open(O, "<./docs/options-in-versions")
-    || die "can't find options-in-versions";
+    || die "cannot find options-in-versions";
 while(<O>) {
     chomp;
     if(/^([^ ]+)/) {
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ while(<O>) {
 close(O);
 
 open(C, "<./.github/scripts/spellcheck.curl")
-    || die "can't find spellcheck.curl";
+    || die "cannot find spellcheck.curl";
 while(<C>) {
     if(/^\#/) {
         next;
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ sub process {
         # *italics*
         $l =~ s/\*(\S.*?)\*//g;
 
-        # strip out https URLs, we don't want them spellchecked
+        # strip out https URLs, we do not want them spellchecked
         $l =~ s!https://[a-z0-9\#_/.-]+!!gi;
 
         $out .= $l;

.github/scripts/pyspelling.words

@@ -957,7 +957,6 @@ watchOS
 WAV
 WB
 wcurl
-web page
 WebDAV
 WebOS
 webpage

.github/stale.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 daysUntilStale: 180
 # Number of days of inactivity before a stale issue is closed
 daysUntilClose: 14
-# Issues with these labels will never be considered stale
+# Issues with these labels are never considered stale
 exemptLabels:
   - pinned
   - security

.github/workflows/linux-old.yml

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
 # is still supported (as of this writing).
 # stretch has ELTS support from Freexian until 2027-06-30
 # For ELTS info see https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/docs/how-to-use-extended-lts/
-# The Debian key will expire 2025-05-20, after which package signature
+# The Debian key expires 2025-05-20, after which package signature
 # verification may need to be disabled.
 # httrack is one of the smallest downloaders, needed to bootstrap ELTS,
-# and won't conflict with the curl we're building.
+# and doesn not conflict with the curl we are building.
 
 name: 'Linux Old'
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ jobs:
           apt-get -o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 update
           apt-get -o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 install -y --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends cmake make automake autoconf libtool gcc pkg-config libpsl-dev libzstd-dev zlib1g-dev libgnutls28-dev libc-ares-dev libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev librtmp-dev stunnel4 groff
           # GitHub's actions/checkout needs newer glibc and libstdc++. The latter also depends on
-          # gcc-8-base, but it doesn't actually seem used in our situation and isn't available in
+          # gcc-8-base, but it does not actually seem used in our situation and is not available in
           # the main repo, so force the install.
           httrack --get https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.28-10+deb10u5_amd64.deb
           httrack --get https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/pool/main/g/gcc-8/libstdc++6_8.3.0-6_amd64.deb

.github/workflows/linux.yml

@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ jobs:
           rm ~/rustls/librustls.zip
 
       - name: 'build rustls'
-        # Note: we don't check cache-hit here. If the cache is hit, we still need to dpkg install the deb.
+        # Note: we do not check cache-hit here. If the cache is hit, we need to dpkg install the deb.
         if: ${{ contains(matrix.build.install_steps, 'rustls') }}
         run: sudo dpkg -i ~/rustls/"librustls_${RUSTLS_VERSION}_amd64.deb"