diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 700628c44..1c643c760 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -228,8 +228,9 @@ when they are first referenced.
 This is useful when using a debugger.
 .TP
 .B LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for
+A list of directories in which to search for
 ELF libraries at execution-time.
+The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons.
 Similar to the
 .B PATH
 environment variable.