diff --git a/appl/telnet/telnet/telnet.1 b/appl/telnet/telnet/telnet.1
index 37f588a4c..ef758c9ef 100644
--- a/appl/telnet/telnet/telnet.1
+++ b/appl/telnet/telnet/telnet.1
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ mode, the escape character is set to the tilde (~) character,
 unless modified by the -e option.
 .It Fl x
 Turn on encryption of the data stream.  When this option is turned on,
-.B telnet
+.Nm telnet
 will exit with an error if authentication cannot be negotiated or if
 encryption cannot be turned on.
 .It Ar host