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diff --git a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
index c3d8025..0656a5e 100644
--- a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ Historically, the
utility was documented to define a word as a ``maximal string of
characters delimited by <space>, <tab> or <newline> characters''.
The implementation, however, didn't handle non-printing characters
-correctly so that `` ^D^E '' counted as 6 spaces, while ``foo^D^Ebar''
+correctly so that
+.Dq " ^D^E "
+counted as 6 spaces, while ``foo^D^Ebar''
counted as 8 characters.
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