Copyedit pass across both volumes: typos, grammar, names, facts, and consistency

[robertbpugh]

A copyedit pass over the Markdown source of both volumes, grouped into commits by type. Copy and consistency only: no content, structure, or footnote changes.

Spelling (8): atrocoties → atrocities, Macdeonia → Macedonia, did't → didn't, elbaorates → elaborates, Parrsell → Parsell, PhP → PHP (×2).

Grammar and wording (12): "Is is ringed" → "It is ringed", "the the" → "the", "lead by" → "led by", "as commercial entity" → "as a commercial entity", "possibly to verify" → "possible to verify", "COVID-19 impact their planning" → "would impact", and others.

Name consistency (6): Moveable → Movable Type, Caiomh → Caoimh, John → Jon Cave, Themeforest → ThemeForest, "Law Centre" → "Law Center", Morano → Marano.

Factual corrections (verified against third-party sources):

• WordPress Tutorials (wordpresstutorials.com) was Sherman Hu's, not Hong's. Verified via Sherman Hu's own bios.
• WordPress 5.9 "Josephine" launched in January 2022, not 2021. Verified via wordpress.org.

Style consistency:

• Standardized on "WordCamp US," the official event styling with no periods (10 instances; us.wordcamp.org uses "WordCamp US" and "WCUS").
• "January 25, 2022" date format, matching the book's "Month DD, YYYY" convention.
• Collapsed 44 stray double spaces to single, leaving indentation and Markdown line breaks intact.

Also includes a Copilot-suggested whitespace cleanup in the MP6 chapter.

Every correction matches the form already used elsewhere in the book or an authoritative external source. This patches the Markdown source only. The compiled formats and wordpress.org/book would need regenerating to reflect it.

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Pull request overview

This PR performs a copyedit pass across the Markdown sources for both Milestones volumes, correcting spelling, grammar/wording, and a few name-consistency issues without changing structure or formatting intent.

Changes:

• Fixes multiple spelling/capitalization issues (e.g., PHP, Macedonia, Movable Type, “atrocities”).
• Corrects grammar/wording mistakes (e.g., “possible to verify”, “led by”, “as a commercial entity”).
• Normalizes selected proper names for consistency (e.g., Jon Cave, Caoimh, ThemeForest, Marano).

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 18 out of 18 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
milestones-vol-2/Content/BB-Chapter-5-WCUS-Philadelphia.md	Corrects “PhP” → “PHP” in Calypso/State of the Word mentions.
milestones-vol-2/Content/BB-Chapter-4-Activating-Diversity.md	Fixes a typo (“elbaorates”) and name spelling (“Parrsell”); improves sentence grammar.
milestones-vol-2/Content/BB-Chapter-15-Together-Again.md	Fixes date typo (“January 25t” → “January 25”).
milestones-vol-2/Content/BB-Chapter-14-Parlez-vous WordPress s'il vous plait_.md	Corrects contributor name spelling (“Morano” → “Marano”).
milestones-vol-2/Content/BB-Chapter-13-The-Pandemic.md	Fixes verb tense (“impact” → “impacted”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 6/44-mp6.md	Corrects leadership/name spelling (“lead” → “led”, “John” → “Jon Cave”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 6/42-spirit-of-the-gpl.md	Normalizes “Themeforest” → “ThemeForest”.
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 5/36-wordpress-3-0.md	Fixes a missing word in a quoted blockquote sentence.
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 5/34-update-notifications-redux.md	Corrects wording (“possibly” → “possible”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 5/31-themes-are-gpl-too.md	Updates “Law Centre” → “Law Center”.
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 3/24-habari.md	Fixes contraction typo (“did’t” → “didn’t”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 3/23-trademarks.md	Fixes grammar (“as commercial entity” → “as a commercial entity”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 3/19-automattic.md	Corrects name spelling (“Caiomh” → “Caoimh”) and grammar (“As for-profit entity” → “As a for-profit entity”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 2/8-support-and-documentation.md	Fixes verb form (“starting” → “started”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 2/7-inside-the-bazaar.md	Fixes missing article (“was stand-alone” → “was a stand-alone”).
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 1/2-b2-cafelog.md	Normalizes “Moveable Type” → “Movable Type”.
milestones-vol-1/Content/Part 1/1-hello-world.md	Normalizes “Moveable Type” → “Movable Type”.
milestones-vol-1/Content/introduction.md	Fixes multiple typos/grammar issues (e.g., “atrocoties”, “Is is”, “watch themn”, “Macdeonia”).

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Copilot reviewed 19 out of 36 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.