diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2
index 6716ba133..6fb5f723c 100644
--- a/man2/accept.2
+++ b/man2/accept.2
@@ -355,9 +355,9 @@ Currently, only DECnet has these semantics on Linux.
 .SS The socklen_t type
 The third argument of
 .BR accept ()
-was originally declared as an \fIint *\fP (and is that under libc4 and libc5
+was originally declared as an \fIint\ *\fP (and is that under libc4 and libc5
 and on many other systems like 4.x BSD, SunOS 4, SGI); a POSIX.1g draft
-standard wanted to change it into a \fIsize_t *\fP, and that is what it is
+standard wanted to change it into a \fIsize_t\ *\fP, and that is what it is
 for SunOS 5.
 Later POSIX standards and glibc 2.x have
 .IR "socklen_t\ * ".