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diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index efa1ae8dd..d2fe2a640 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ you have to use:
and then the mount options from command line will be appended to
the list of options from
.IR /etc/fstab .
-The usual behaviour is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated
+The usual behavior is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated
options.
When the
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ but still allow userspace to override it. For more details about the default
system mount options see /proc/mounts.
.TP
.B nostrictatime
-Use the kernel's default behaviour for inode access time updates.
+Use the kernel's default behavior for inode access time updates.
.TP
.B suid
Allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take
@@ -1365,15 +1365,15 @@ Support POSIX Access Control Lists (or not).
.\" requires CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
.TP
.BR bsddf | minixdf
-Set the behaviour for the
+Set the behavior for the
.I statfs
system call. The
.B minixdf
-behaviour is to return in the
+behavior is to return in the
.I f_blocks
field the total number of blocks of the filesystem, while the
.B bsddf
-behaviour (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks
+behavior (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks
used by the ext2 filesystem and not available for file storage. Thus
.sp 1
% mount /k \-o minixdf; df /k; umount /k
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ don't have to be supported if ext4 kernel driver is used for ext2 and ext3 files
Print debugging info upon each (re)mount.
.TP
.BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic }
-Define the behaviour when an error is encountered.
+Define the behavior when an error is encountered.
(Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue,
or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.)
The default is set in the filesystem superblock, and can be
@@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ a volume where the
option was previously specified in order to restore normal behavior.
.TP
.BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic }
-Define the behaviour when an error is encountered.
+Define the behavior when an error is encountered.
(Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue,
or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.)
.TP
@@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ The same filesystem type is also used by Mac OS X.
.TP
.BI onerror= value
-Set behaviour on error:
+Set behavior on error:
.RS
.TP
.B panic
@@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ disabled.
.TP
.BR shortname= { lower | win95 | winnt | mixed }
-Defines the behaviour for creation and display of filenames which fit into
+Defines the behavior for creation and display of filenames which fit into
8.3 characters. If a long name for a file exists, it will always be
preferred display. There are four modes:
:
@@ -2644,12 +2644,12 @@ doing delayed allocation writeout. Valid values for this
option are page size (typically 4KiB) through to 1GiB,
inclusive, in power-of-2 increments.
.sp
-The default behaviour is for dynamic end-of-file
+The default behavior is for dynamic end-of-file
preallocation size, which uses a set of heuristics to
optimise the preallocation size based on the current
allocation patterns within the file and the access patterns
to the file. Specifying a fixed allocsize value turns off
-the dynamic behaviour.
+the dynamic behavior.
.TP
.BR attr2 | noattr2
The options enable/disable an "opportunistic" improvement to
@@ -2659,8 +2659,8 @@ attr2 is selected (either when setting or removing extended
attributes) the on-disk superblock feature bit field will be
updated to reflect this format being in use.
.sp
-The default behaviour is determined by the on-disk feature
-bit indicating that attr2 behaviour is active. If either
+The default behavior is determined by the on-disk feature
+bit indicating that attr2 behavior is active. If either
mount option it set, then that becomes the new default used
by the filesystem.
.sp
@@ -2732,7 +2732,7 @@ If "largeio" specified, a filesystem that was created with a
"swidth" specified will return the "swidth" value (in bytes)
in st_blksize. If the filesystem does not have a "swidth"
specified but does specify an "allocsize" then "allocsize"
-(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behaviour
+(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behavior
is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified.
.TP
.B logbufs=value