diff --git a/pep-0527.txt b/pep-0527.txt
index 292ad94758d..73fcd1b48c8 100644
--- a/pep-0527.txt
+++ b/pep-0527.txt
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ list of those to be disallowed.
 File Extensions
 ---------------
 
-Currently ``sdist`` supports a wide variety of file extensions like `.tar.gz``,
+Currently ``sdist`` supports a wide variety of file extensions like ``.tar.gz``,
 ``.tar``, ``.tar.bz2``, ``.tar.xz``, ``.zip``, ``.tar.Z``, ``.tgz``, and
 ``.tbz``. However, of those the only extensions which get anything more than
 negligable usage is ``.tar.gz`` with 444,338 sdists currently, ``.zip`` with