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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 9772619..db90b86 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -612,6 +612,8 @@ If VARIABLE is omitted, it chomps C<$_>.  Example:
 	# ...
     }
 
+If VARIABLE is a hash, it chomps the hash's values, but not its keys.
+
 You can actually chomp anything that's an lvalue, including an assignment:
 
     chomp($cwd = `pwd`);
@@ -638,6 +640,8 @@ Example:
 	#...
     }
 
+If VARIABLE is a hash, it chops the hash's values, but not its keys.
+
 You can actually chop anything that's an lvalue, including an assignment:
 
     chop($cwd = `pwd`);
@@ -2819,7 +2823,7 @@ otherwise it's necessary to protect any leading and trailing whitespace:
     $file =~ s#^(\s)#./$1#;
     open(FOO, "< $file\0");
 
-(this may not work on some bizzare filesystems).  One should
+(this may not work on some bizarre filesystems).  One should
 conscientiously choose between the I<magic> and 3-arguments form
 of open():
 
@@ -4101,7 +4105,7 @@ C<syscall> interface to access setitimer(2) if your system supports
 it, or else see L</select> above.  The Time::HiRes module from CPAN
 may also help.
 
-See also the POSIX module's C<sigpause> function.
+See also the POSIX module's C<pause> function.
 
 =item socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL
 
@@ -5087,6 +5091,7 @@ A class implementing a hash should have the following methods:
     FIRSTKEY this
     NEXTKEY this, lastkey
     DESTROY this
+    UNTIE this
 
 A class implementing an ordinary array should have the following methods:
 
@@ -5103,6 +5108,7 @@ A class implementing an ordinary array should have the following methods:
     SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
     EXTEND this, count
     DESTROY this
+    UNTIE this
 
 A class implementing a file handle should have the following methods:
 
@@ -5113,8 +5119,15 @@ A class implementing a file handle should have the following methods:
     WRITE this, scalar, length, offset
     PRINT this, LIST
     PRINTF this, format, LIST
+    BINMODE this
+    EOF this
+    FILENO this
+    SEEK this, position, whence
+    TELL this
+    OPEN this, mode, LIST
     CLOSE this
     DESTROY this
+    UNTIE this
 
 A class implementing a scalar should have the following methods:
 
@@ -5122,6 +5135,7 @@ A class implementing a scalar should have the following methods:
     FETCH this,
     STORE this, value
     DESTROY this
+    UNTIE this
 
 Not all methods indicated above need be implemented.  See L<perltie>,
 L<Tie::Hash>, L<Tie::Array>, L<Tie::Scalar>, and L<Tie::Handle>.
@@ -5482,7 +5496,7 @@ If BITS is 8, "elements" coincide with bytes of the input string.
 
 If BITS is 16 or more, bytes of the input string are grouped into chunks
 of size BITS/8, and each group is converted to a number as with
-pack()/unpack() with big-endian formats C<n>/C<N> (and analoguously
+pack()/unpack() with big-endian formats C<n>/C<N> (and analogously
 for BITS==64).  See L<"pack"> for details.
 
 If bits is 4 or less, the string is broken into bytes, then the bits
@@ -5497,9 +5511,18 @@ to give the expression the correct precedence as in
 
     vec($image, $max_x * $x + $y, 8) = 3;
 
-If the selected element is off the end of the string, the value 0 is
-returned.  If an element off the end of the string is written to,
-Perl will first extend the string with sufficiently many zero bytes.
+If the selected element is outside the string, the value 0 is returned.
+If an element off the end of the string is written to, Perl will first
+extend the string with sufficiently many zero bytes.   It is an error
+to try to write off the beginning of the string (i.e. negative OFFSET).
+
+The string should not contain any character with the value > 255 (which
+can only happen if you're using UTF8 encoding).  If it does, it will be
+treated as something which is not UTF8 encoded.  When the C<vec> was
+assigned to, other parts of your program will also no longer consider the
+string to be UTF8 encoded.  In other words, if you do have such characters
+in your string, vec() will operate on the actual byte string, and not the
+conceptual character string.
 
 Strings created with C<vec> can also be manipulated with the logical
 operators C<|>, C<&>, C<^>, and C<~>.  These operators will assume a bit