diff --git a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
index 3eb3eb101957..821e1b9ed783 100644
--- a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: systat.1,v 1.52 2021/08/21 13:22:19 christos Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: systat.1,v 1.53 2023/03/29 19:40:18 kre Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@ disk I/O statistics (a la
 .Xr iostat 8 ) ,
 virtual memory statistics (a la
 .Xr vmstat 1 ) ,
-network ``mbuf'' utilization, network 'ifstat' traffic, and network connections (a la
+network
+.Qq Ic mbufs
+utilization, network
+.Qq Ic ifstat 
+traffic, and network connections (a la
 .Xr netstat 1 ) .
 .Pp
 Input is interpreted at two different levels.