diff --git a/lib/libc/string/memset.3 b/lib/libc/string/memset.3
index 2239bd64abb..87635e2a8ac 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/memset.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/memset.3
@@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ Undefined behaviour from
 .Fn memset ,
 resulting from storage overflow, will occur if
 .Fa len
-is greater than the length of buffer
-.Fa dest .
+is greater than the length of the
+.Fa dest
+buffer.
 The behaviour is also undefined if
 .Fa dest
 is an invalid pointer.