diff --git a/usr.sbin/xntp/ntpdate/ntpdate.8 b/usr.sbin/xntp/ntpdate/ntpdate.8
index 2534bd2160de..c4e2fc2fcf1c 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/xntp/ntpdate/ntpdate.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/xntp/ntpdate/ntpdate.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: ntpdate.8,v 1.3 1997/05/13 04:38:20 mikel Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: ntpdate.8,v 1.4 1997/05/29 07:47:05 mikel Exp $
 .\" Converted from HTML to mandoc by Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org>
 .\"
 .Dd April 17, 1997
@@ -91,8 +91,7 @@ The following options are available:
 .It Fl a Ar key
 Enable the authentication function and specify the key identifier to
 be used for authentication as the argument
-.Ar key
-.Nm 
+.Ar key .
 The keys and key identifiers must match
 in both the client and server key files. The default is to disable the
 authentication function.
@@ -161,13 +160,13 @@ scripts.
 .It Fl t Ar timeout
 Specify the maximum time waiting for a server response as the value
 .Ar timeout ,
-in seconds and fraction. The value is is rounded to a
+in seconds and fraction. The value is rounded to a
 multiple of 0.2 seconds. The default is 1 second, a value suitable for
 polling across a LAN.
 .It Fl u
 Direct 
 .Nm
-to use an unprivileged port or outgoing
+to use an unprivileged port for outgoing
 packets. This is most useful when behind a firewall that blocks incoming
 traffic to privileged ports, and you want to synchronise with hosts
 beyond the firewall. Note that the