diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
index 94d40de56e..e0047bc751 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ options          NFS_ROOT          # NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT</progra
 
     <programlisting>options          SYSVSHM           # SYSV-style shared memory</programlisting>
 
-    <para>This option provides for System V shared memory.  The most
+    <para>This option provides for System&nbsp;V shared memory.  The most
       common use of this is the XSHM extension in X, which many
       graphics-intensive programs will automatically take advantage of for
       extra speed.  If you use X, you will definitely want to include
@@ -859,17 +859,17 @@ options          NFS_ROOT          # NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT</progra
 
     <programlisting>options          SYSVSEM           # SYSV-style semaphores</programlisting>
 
-    <para>Support for System V semaphores.  Less commonly used but only
+    <para>Support for System&nbsp;V semaphores.  Less commonly used but only
       adds a few hundred bytes to the kernel.</para>
 
     <programlisting>options          SYSVMSG           # SYSV-style message queues</programlisting>
 
-    <para>Support for System V messages.  Again, this option only adds
+    <para>Support for System&nbsp;V messages.  Again, this option only adds
       a few hundred bytes to the kernel.</para>
 
     <note>
       <para>The <option>-p</option> option of the &man.ipcs.1; command will
-	list any processes using each of these System V facilities.</para>
+	list any processes using each of these System&nbsp;V facilities.</para>
     </note>
 
     <programlisting>options 	     _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions</programlisting>