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@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ You should follow the scalding project on twitter: <http://twitter.com/scalding>
 ## Word Count
 Hadoop is a distributed system for counting words.  Here is how it's done in scalding.  You can find this in examples:
 
-    ```scala
-    package com.twitter.scalding.examples
-
-    import com.twitter.scalding._
-
-    class WordCountJob(args : Args) extends Job(args) {
-      TextLine( args("input") ).read.
-        flatMap('line -> 'word) { line : String => line.split("\\s+") }.
-        groupBy('word) { _.size }.
-        write( Tsv( args("output") ) )
-    }
-    ```
+```scala
+  package com.twitter.scalding.examples
+
+  import com.twitter.scalding._
+
+  class WordCountJob(args : Args) extends Job(args) {
+    TextLine( args("input") ).read.
+      flatMap('line -> 'word) { line : String => line.split("\\s+") }.
+      groupBy('word) { _.size }.
+      write( Tsv( args("output") ) )
+  }
+```
 
 ##Tutorial
 See tutorial/ for examples of how to use the DSL.  See tutorial/CodeSnippets.md for some