Improve some error messages

What does this MR do and why?

The rails ActiveModel.errors.add(attribute, message) method should not have leading space included in the message.

I've removed the leading space (I think I got them all).

The wordage sounded a bit funny too, so i've attempted to fix that while i'm at it.

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