PR Summary

A bunch of minor fixes. For comments, I only modified when it was sort of obviously the wrong word, so very few grammar fixes (although a few before I stopped).

PR Checklist

Documentation and Tests

• Has pytest style unit tests (and pytest passes)
• Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant (the docs should build without error).
• New plotting related features are documented with examples.

Release Notes

• New features are marked with a .. versionadded:: directive in the docstring and documented in doc/users/next_whats_new/
• API changes are marked with a .. versionchanged:: directive in the docstring and documented in doc/api/next_api_changes/
• Release notes conform with instructions in next_whats_new/README.rst or next_api_changes/README.rst