diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4e1590c..a4d2fd9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ For a more feature-complete Redis-compatible server, distributed key/value store
 
 ## Development
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ git clone https://github.com/prologic/bitcask.git
 $ make
 ```
 
 ## Install
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ go get github.com/prologic/bitcask
 ```
 
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ $ go get github.com/prologic/bitcask
 
 Install the package into your project:
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ go get github.com/prologic/bitcask
 ```
 
-```#!go
+```go
 package main
 
 import "github.com/prologic/bitcask"
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ documentation and other examples.
 
 ## Usage (tool)
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ bitcask -p /tmp/db set Hello World
 $ bitcask -p /tmp/db get Hello
 World
@@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ World
 
 There is also a builtin very  simple Redis-compatible server called `bitcaskd`:
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ ./bitcaskd ./tmp
 INFO[0000] starting bitcaskd v0.0.7@146f777              bind=":6379" path=./tmp
 ```
 
 Example session:
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ telnet localhost 6379
 Trying ::1...
 Connected to localhost.
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Connection closed by foreign host.
 
 You can also use the [Bitcask Docker Image](https://cloud.docker.com/u/prologic/repository/docker/prologic/bitcask):
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ docker pull prologic/bitcask
 $ docker run -d -p 6379:6379 prologic/bitcask
 ```
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ $ docker run -d -p 6379:6379 prologic/bitcask
 
 Benchmarks run on a 11" Macbook with a 1.4Ghz Intel Core i7:
 
-```#!sh
+```sh
 $ make bench
 ...
 goos: darwin