diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b45a05d3a..115638f3f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ Running fish requires:
 -  some common \*nix system utilities (currently ``mktemp``), in
    addition to the basic POSIX utilities (``cat``, ``cut``, ``dirname``,
    ``ls``, ``mkdir``, ``mkfifo``, ``rm``, ``sort``, ``tee``, ``tr``,
-   ``uname`` and ``sed`` at least, but the full coreutils plus find, sed
-   and awk is preferred)
+   ``uname`` and ``sed`` at least, but the full coreutils plus ``find`` and
+   ``awk`` is preferred)
 -  The gettext library, if compiled with
    translation support