8284191: Replace usages of 'a the' in hotspot and java.base

Reviewed-by: lancea, wetmore, naoto, iris, kevinw, xuelei

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ModuleLayer.java

@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ public final class ModuleLayer {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Creates a LayerInstantiationException with the a message formatted from
+     * Creates a LayerInstantiationException with the message formatted from
      * the given format string and arguments.
      */
     private static LayerInstantiationException fail(String fmt, Object ... args) {

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/VirtualMachineError.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1995, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1995, 2022, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ public abstract class VirtualMachineError extends Error {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Constructs an a {@code VirtualMachineError} with the specified
+     * Constructs a {@code VirtualMachineError} with the specified
      * cause and a detail message of {@code (cause==null ? null :
      * cause.toString())} (which typically contains the class and
      * detail message of {@code cause}).

src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Locale.java

@@ -2319,7 +2319,7 @@ public final class Locale implements Cloneable, Serializable {
 
     /**
      * Format a list using given pattern strings.
-     * If either of the patterns is null, then a the list is
+     * If either of the patterns is null, then the list is
      * formatted by concatenation with the delimiter ','.
      * @param stringList the list of strings to be formatted.
      * and formatting them into a list.