diff --git a/2012/kang/README.md b/2012/kang/README.md
index 7bf0ce86d..8edb92c71 100644
--- a/2012/kang/README.md
+++ b/2012/kang/README.md
@@ -21,10 +21,15 @@ echo "full spelling of an English cardinal numeral less than a quadrillion" | ./
 echo Nineteen hundred and eighty-four | ./kang
 echo uno | ./kang
 echo trois | ./kang
-echo fier | ./kang
+echo vier | ./kang
 echo "shest'" | ./kang
 ```
 
+[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) changed the code to
+accept the proper German for four 'vier' where before it was spelt with the
+sound of V (fier not vier). Thank you Cody!
+
+
 ## Judges' comments:
 
 The judges were able to appreciate the Indo-European language family
diff --git a/2012/kang/kang.c b/2012/kang/kang.c
index e2058d486..53655c26a 100644
--- a/2012/kang/kang.c
+++ b/2012/kang/kang.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 long long n,u,m,b;main(e,r)char **r;{f\
-or(;n++||(e=getchar()|32)>=0;b="ynwtsflrabg"[n%=11]-e?b:b*8+
+or(;n++||(e=getchar()|32)>=0;b="ynwtsvlrabg"[n%=11]-e?b:b*8+
 n)for(r=b%64-25;e<47&&b;b/=8)for(n=19;n;n["1+DIY/.K430x9\
 G(kC["]-42&255^b||(m+=n>15?n:n>9?m%u*~-u:~(int)r?n+
 !(int)r*16:n*16,b=0))u=1ll<<6177%n--*4;printf("%llx\n",m);}