diff --git a/man/man8/zpoolprops.8 b/man/man8/zpoolprops.8
index 20e0d74421..d6dc18a56c 100644
--- a/man/man8/zpoolprops.8
+++ b/man/man8/zpoolprops.8
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ command:
 Pool sector size exponent, to the power of
 .Sy 2
 (internally referred to as
-.Sy ashift
-). Values from 9 to 16, inclusive, are valid; also, the
+.Sy ashift ) .
+Values from 9 to 16, inclusive, are valid; also, the
 value 0 (the default) means to auto-detect using the kernel's block
 layer and a ZFS internal exception list. I/O operations will be aligned
 to the specified size boundaries. Additionally, the minimum (disk)