diff --git a/share/man/man9/properties.9 b/share/man/man9/properties.9
index 193e82635b1a..21611a12b2e8 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/properties.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/properties.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: properties.9,v 1.10 2004/10/04 19:12:52 rumble Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: properties.9,v 1.11 2004/10/04 20:17:47 rumble Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2001 Eduardo Horvath
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -285,8 +285,8 @@ It returns the amount of memory needed to store the entire list.
 "size_t len"
 Get a list of an object's properties from the database.
 It queries the database to locate all properties associated with
-.Pa object
-, and copies up to
+.Pa object ,
+and copies up to
 .Pa len
 bytes of
 .Li NUL