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Fixes many instances of misused terms

Evan Read requested to merge eread/fix-misused-terms into master

What does this MR do?

Fixes man instances of: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#top-misused-terms (not all, in order to keep MR small).

These instances were detected by the Vale rule: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/0203f7d447aa450aa6d0698bbac2763b539ff993/doc/.linting/vale/styles/gitlab/Substitutions.yml.

Because this is straight out of the company handbook, I think we should work toward getting all instances fixed, and the rule elevated to error.

The rule seems to detect the same results whether or not we run with --ignore-syntax, so we don't need to do anything special with the existing CI invocation.

CC @gl-docsteam for visibility.

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