The help text displayed by the function map-y-or-n-p when the user types
C-h contains the following grammatically dubious phrase:

  RET or ‘q’ to give up on the act on (skip all remaining objects);
                           ^^^^^^^^^^

where an (configurable) action verb follows the definite article.

I attach a patch to both avoid this and clarify that the current object
is skipped as well as all remaining ones.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

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 of 2018-01-03 built on thunk
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