*.xml: Don't abbreviate `directory` in normal text

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/user/add-method.xml b/doc/user/add-method.xml
index 071d654..001a575 100644
--- a/doc/user/add-method.xml
+++ b/doc/user/add-method.xml
@@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ This file is processed by the bin/SConsDoc.py module.
   <scons_example name="addmethod_ex1">
      <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
 def install_in_bin_dirs(env, source):
-    """Install source in both bin dirs"""
+    """Install source in both bin directories"""
     i1 = env.Install("$BIN", source)
     i2 = env.Install("$LOCALBIN", source)
     return [i1[0], i2[0]]  # Return a list, like a normal builder
 
 env = Environment(BIN='__ROOT__/usr/bin', LOCALBIN='#install/bin')
 env.AddMethod(install_in_bin_dirs, "InstallInBinDirs")
-env.InstallInBinDirs(Program('hello.c'))  # installs hello in both bin dirs
+env.InstallInBinDirs(Program('hello.c'))  # installs hello in both bin directories
      </file>
      <file name="hello.c">
 int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); }
diff --git a/doc/user/builders-writing.xml b/doc/user/builders-writing.xml
index b9eb064..8d2c948 100644
--- a/doc/user/builders-writing.xml
+++ b/doc/user/builders-writing.xml
@@ -941,9 +941,9 @@ main()
     Each system type (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) searches a canonical
     set of directories for <filename>site_scons</filename>;
     see the man page for details.
-    The top-level SConstruct's <filename>site_scons</filename> dir
+    The top-level SConstruct's <filename>site_scons</filename> directory
     (that is, the one in the project) is always searched last,
-    and its dir is placed first in the tool path so it overrides all
+    and its directory is placed first in the tool path so it overrides all
     others.
 
     </para>
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ main()
 
     If you get a tool from somewhere (the &SCons; wiki or a third party,
     for instance) and you'd like to use it in your project, a
-    <filename>site_scons</filename> dir is the simplest place to put it.
+    <filename>site_scons</filename> directory is the simplest place to put it.
     Tools come in two flavors; either a &Python; function that operates on
     an &Environment; or a &Python; module or package  containing two functions,
     <function>exists()</function> and <function>generate()</function>.
diff --git a/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml b/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml
index 763e55c..e2b59a5 100644
--- a/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml
+++ b/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ prog.c
 
     <para>
 
-    When using the &Duplicate; option to create variant dirs,
+    When using the &Duplicate; option to create variant directories,
     sometimes you may find files not getting linked or copied to where you
     expect (or not at all), or files mysteriously disappearing.
     These are usually because of a misconfiguration of some kind in the
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ prog.c
     &debug-duplicate; option shows each time a variant file is
     unlinked and relinked from its source (or copied, depending on
     settings), and also shows a message for removing "stale"
-    variant-dir files that no longer have a corresponding source file.
+    variant-directory files that no longer have a corresponding source file.
     It also prints a line for each target that's removed just before
     building, since that can also be mistaken for the same thing.