diff --git a/1987/biggar/README.md b/1987/biggar/README.md
index e3e466b00..d35f92bf1 100644
--- a/1987/biggar/README.md
+++ b/1987/biggar/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ so what if the Makefiles grow a little!  :-)
 
 One vendor's lint got hung in an infinite loop over this entry!
 
-FYI:  We will let Mark get away with this truly sick entry this time, but\
+FYI:  We will let Mark get away with this truly sick entry this time, but
 for the future on we have placed a limit on the size of a compile line.
 
 NOTE: originally we made a comment in [Larry Wall's