diff --git a/markdown.html b/markdown.html
index ff87d0337..da501b406 100644
--- a/markdown.html
+++ b/markdown.html
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
 <title>The International Obfuscated C Code Contest</title>
 <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="./favicon.ico">
-<meta name="description" content="IOCCC Markdown Guidelines">
+<meta name="description" content="IOCCC markdown guidelines">
 <meta name="keywords" content="IOCCC, markdown">
 </head>
 
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
 	   height=110>
   </a>
   <h1>The International Obfuscated C Code Contest</h1>
-  <h2>IOCCC Markdown Guidelines</h2>
+  <h2>IOCCC markdown guidelines</h2>
 </div>
 
 <!-- END: this line ends content from: inc/header.default.html -->
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@
 
 <!-- BEFORE: 1st line of markdown file: markdown.md -->
 <div id="guidelines">
-<h1 id="ioccc-markdown-guidelines">IOCCC Markdown Guidelines</h1>
+<h1 id="ioccc-markdown-guidelines">IOCCC markdown guidelines</h1>
 </div>
 <p>The IOCCC makes extensive use of <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">markdown</a>.
 For example, when submitting to the IOCCC
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ effect in standard HTML 5 and interacts badly with unquoted attribute values.</p
 <div id="closing-parentheses">
 <h2 id="please-do-not-end-markdown-links-with">Please do NOT end markdown links with “<code>))</code>”</h2>
 </div>
-<p>Please do <strong>NOT</strong> end a markdown links with a double closed parenthesis “<code>))</code>”.</p>
+<p>Please do <strong>NOT</strong> end a markdown link with a double closed parenthesis “<code>))</code>”.</p>
 <p>Markdown links that end in “<code>))</code>” complicate parsing and sometimes lead
 to incorrect URLs or file paths.</p>
 <p>Instead of:</p>
diff --git a/markdown.md b/markdown.md
index 9942c6709..6fbe41aaa 100644
--- a/markdown.md
+++ b/markdown.md
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ use:
 ## Please do NOT end markdown links with "`))`"
 </div>
 
-Please do **NOT** end a markdown links with a double closed parenthesis "`))`".
+Please do **NOT** end a markdown link with a double closed parenthesis "`))`".
 
 Markdown links that end in "`))`" complicate parsing and sometimes lead
 to incorrect URLs or file paths.