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diff --git a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
index ccd6b2b..9ae4c80 100644
--- a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
+++ b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ The options are as follows:
.\" old ipsec
.\" .It Fl A
.\" Enables transport-mode IPsec authentication header
-.\" .Pq experimental .
+.\" (experimental).
.It Fl a Ar addrtype
Generate ICMPv6 Node Information Node Addresses query, rather than echo-request.
.Ar addrtype
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ This is an experimental option.
Set socket buffer size.
.It Fl c Ar count
Stop after sending
-.Pq and receiving
+(and receiving)
.Ar count
.Tn ECHO_RESPONSE
packets.
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Set the
option on the socket being used.
.\" .It Fl E
.\" Enables transport-mode IPsec encapsulated security payload
-.\" .Pq experimental .
+.\" (experimental).
.It Fl f
Flood ping.
Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second,
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Probe node information multicast group
.Pq Li ff02::2:xxxx:xxxx .
.Ar host
must be string hostname of the target
-.Pq must not be a numeric IPv6 address .
+(must not be a numeric IPv6 address).
Node information multicast group will be computed based on given
.Ar host ,
and will be used as the final destination.
@@ -224,16 +224,14 @@ when finished.
.It Fl R
Make the kernel believe that the target
.Ar host
-.Po
-or the first
+(or the first
.Ar hop
if you specify
-.Ar hops
-.Pc
+.Ar hops )
is reachable, by injecting upper-layer reachability confirmation hint.
The option is meaningful only if the target
.Ar host
-.Pq or the first hop
+(or the first hop)
is a neighbor.
.It Fl S Ar sourceaddr
Specifies the source address of request packets.
@@ -300,7 +298,7 @@ If duplicate packets are received, they are not included in the packet
loss calculation, although the round trip time of these packets is used
in calculating the round-trip time statistics.
When the specified number of packets have been sent
-.Pq and received
+(and received)
or if the program is terminated with a
.Dv SIGINT ,
a brief summary is displayed, showing the number of packets sent and
@@ -323,12 +321,14 @@ during normal operations or from automated scripts.
.\" When a
.\" .Ar packetsize
.\" is given, this indicated the size of this extra piece of data
-.\" .Pq the default is 56 .
+.\" (the default is 56).
.\" Thus the amount of data received inside of an IP packet of type
.\" .Tn ICMP
.\" .Tn ECHO_REPLY
.\" will always be 8 bytes more than the requested data space
-.\" .Pq the Tn ICMP header .
+.\" (the
+.\" .Tn ICMP
+.\" header).
.\" .Pp
.\" If the data space is at least eight bytes large,
.\" .Nm
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Duplicate packets should never occur when pinging a unicast address,
and seem to be caused by
inappropriate link-level retransmissions.
Duplicates may occur in many situations and are rarely
-.Pq if ever
+(if ever)
a good sign, although the presence of low levels of duplicates may not
always be cause for alarm.
Duplicates are expected when pinging a broadcast or multicast address,
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Damaged packets are obviously serious cause for alarm and often
indicate broken hardware somewhere in the
.Nm
packet's path
-.Pq in the network or in the hosts .
+(in the network or in the hosts).
.Sh TRYING DIFFERENT DATA PATTERNS
The
(inter)network
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