diff --git a/1985/august/README.md b/1985/august/README.md
index 410c4ea9f..d05f459a5 100644
--- a/1985/august/README.md
+++ b/1985/august/README.md
@@ -1,26 +1,32 @@
 # The most obscure program
 
-Lennart Augustsson
-<chalmers!augustss> 
+Lennart Augustsson  
+<chalmers!augustss>  
 
 ## To build:
 
-        make all
+```sh
+make all
+```
 
 ## To run:
 
-	./august
+```sh
+./august
+```
 
 ## Try:
 
-
-	./august | head -n 10
+```sh
+./august | head -n 10
+```
 
 If you have the `primes(6)` tool (sometimes part of BSD Games) you can see
 what of the output in the first N (say 15) lines are primes:
 
-	while read -r n ; do primes "$n" $((n + 1)) ; done < <((./august | head -n 15 ))
-
+```sh
+while read -r n ; do primes "$n" $((n + 1)) ; done < <((./august | head -n 15 ))
+```
 
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
@@ -34,7 +40,7 @@ memory or until they sell your computer, which ever comes first.
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
-No comments were provided by the author.
+No remarks were provided by the author.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
 
diff --git a/1985/lycklama/README.md b/1985/lycklama/README.md
index 024579b1c..745f0668f 100644
--- a/1985/lycklama/README.md
+++ b/1985/lycklama/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # The strangest appearing program 
 
-Ed Lycklama
+Ed Lycklama  
 
 ## To build:
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The program itself looks like tty noise.
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
-No comments were provided by the author.
+No remarks were provided by the author.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
 
diff --git a/1985/shapiro/README.md b/1985/shapiro/README.md
index a594f0b5e..6b5534440 100644
--- a/1985/shapiro/README.md
+++ b/1985/shapiro/README.md
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 # Grand prize for most well-rounded in confusion
 
-Carl Shapiro
+Carl Shapiro  
 
 ## To build:
 
-        make all
-
+```sh
+make all
+```
 
 ## Try:
 
-	./shapiro
+```sh
+./shapiro
+```
 
 
 ## Judges' remarks:
@@ -18,7 +21,6 @@ As submitted, this program was 3 lines (2 of defines and 1 of code).
 To make news & mail happy we split the last line into 7. The file
 [shapiro.alt.c](shapiro.alt.c) is the original version.
 
-
 This program was selected for the 1987 t-shirt collection.
 
 We found this program is be simply a**maze**ing! Run this program without
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ arguments and notice the output.
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
-No comments were provided by the author.
+No remarks were provided by the author.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
 
diff --git a/1985/sicherman/README.md b/1985/sicherman/README.md
index a8dafa672..54f738bd7 100644
--- a/1985/sicherman/README.md
+++ b/1985/sicherman/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # The worst abuse of the C preprocessor
 
-Col. G. L. Sicherman
+Col. G. L. Sicherman  
 
 ## To build:
 
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ Use `sicherman.alt` as you would `sicherman`.
 
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
-This program abuses the C preprocessor so much that some /lib/cpp fail to
-strip out all of the comments on the first pass!  If you were able to
-understand Decot's entry in 1984, you will have a head start on this
-one.
+This program abuses the C preprocessor so much that some /lib/cpp fail to strip
+out all of the comments on the first pass!  If you were able to understand
+[Decot's](/winners.html#Dave_Decot) [entry in 1984](/1984/decot/decot.c), you
+will have a head start on this one.
 
 Be sure to run this program through lint!  If your lint works
 correctly, it should warn you that the argument 'Manual' isn't used.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ results in diff reporting a difference on some machines.
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
-No comments were provided by the author.
+No remarks were provided by the author.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License: