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diff --git a/usr.bin/error/error.1 b/usr.bin/error/error.1
index ebc6c68a6d6..99ae97eb183 100644
--- a/usr.bin/error/error.1
+++ b/usr.bin/error/error.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: error.1,v 1.8 1999/12/04 19:04:52 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: error.1,v 1.9 2000/03/07 21:11:07 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: error.1,v 1.3 1995/09/02 06:15:20 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
@@ -67,9 +67,7 @@ Do
touch any files; all error messages are sent to the
standard output.
.It Fl q
-The user is
-.Ar queried
-whether s/he wants to touch the file.
+The user is queried whether or not to touch the file.
A
.Sq y
or
@@ -106,15 +104,13 @@ Thus the suffix list:
allows
.Nm
to touch files ending with
-.Sq \&.c ,
-.Sq \&.y ,
-.Sq \&.foo\&* ,
+.Dq \&.c ,
+.Dq \&.y ,
+.Dq \&.foo\&* ,
and
-.Sq \&.h .
+.Dq \&.h .
.It Fl s
-Print out
-.Em statistics
-regarding the error categorization.
+Print out statistics regarding the error categorization.
Not too useful.
.It Fl I Ar ignorefile
Specifies a file containing a list of functions to ignore.
@@ -169,8 +165,8 @@ knows about the error messages produced by:
.Xr pi 1 ,
.Xr pc 1 ,
.Xr f77 1 ,
-and
-.Em DEC Western Research Modula\-2 .
+and DEC Western Research Modula\-2.
+.Pp
.Nm
knows a standard format for error messages produced by
the language processors,