The following is the beginning of an attempt to clean up the manual
pages somewhat.
grep tells me that 'switch' is used 193 times, whereas 'option' is
only used 51 times, so I've tried to standardise on 'switch'.
diff --git a/man/ali.man b/man/ali.man
index 9399871b..7ef589bc 100644
--- a/man/ali.man
+++ b/man/ali.man
@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ and writes that list on standard output. If no arguments
are given,
.B ali
outputs all alias entries.
.PP
-By default, when an aliases expands to multiple addresses, the addresses
+By default, when an alias expands to multiple addresses, the addresses
are separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible. If the
.B \-list
-option is specified, then when an address expands to multiple
+switch is specified, and an address expands to multiple
addresses, each address will appear on a separate line.
.PP
-The switch
+The
.B \-user
-directs
+switch directs
.B ali
to perform its processing in
an inverted fashion: instead of listing the addresses that each given
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ absolute or starts with
.RI \*(lq . \*(rq
or
.RI \*(lq .. \*(rq
-then it's accessed directly; otherwise tilde expansion is done on
+it is accessed directly; otherwise tilde expansion is done on
usernames, then files are searched for in the user's
.I Mail
directory as specified in their profile. If not found there, the directory
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