diff --git a/share/examples/mdoc/example.4 b/share/examples/mdoc/example.4
index 33bdbe44380..c292dae2cff 100644
--- a/share/examples/mdoc/example.4
+++ b/share/examples/mdoc/example.4
@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ The
 manual page example first appeared in
 .At v6 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
-This
-manual page was written by
+This manual page was written by
 .An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org .
 .Sh BUGS
 The actual code for this device driver is vaporware.