diff --git a/examples/formatting.txt b/examples/formatting.txt
index 556d649..8fbd792 100644
--- a/examples/formatting.txt
+++ b/examples/formatting.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Messages in `snac` allow a special subset of Markdown, that includes *emphasized
 Line breaks are output as you write it.
 
 
-Prepending a less-than in a line makes it a quote:
+Prepending a greater-than symbol in a line makes it a quote:
 
 > This is quoted text
 >