diff --git a/docs/man/supybot.1 b/docs/man/supybot.1
index 1203d3c8a..08385010c 100644
--- a/docs/man/supybot.1
+++ b/docs/man/supybot.1
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 .\" Process this file with
 .\" groff -man -Tascii supybot.1
 .\"
-.TH SUPYBOT 1 "APRIL 2005"
+.TH SUPYBOT 1 "JULY 2009"
 .SH NAME
-supybot \- A robust and user friendly Python IRC bot
+supybot - A robust and user friendly Python IRC bot
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B supybot
 .RI [ options ] " configFile
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ non-POSIX systems.
 .TP
 .B \-\^\-allow\-default\-owner
 Determines whether the bot will allow its defaultCapabilities not to
-include "-owner", thus giving all users the owner capability by
+include "\-owner", thus giving all users the owner capability by
 default.  This is dumb, hence we require a command-line option to
 enable it.
 .TP