diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 # passphrase
-A simple bash script that generates random dictionary-derived passwords for me. It takes a single parameter, which is the number of phrase groups to output.
+A simple bash script that generates random dictionary-derived passwords for me. It takes two arguments:
+
+	**-c** <*number*>
+		Provides this many groups of five passphrases.
+
+	**-s**
+		Include spaces between all words.
 
 Here's an example. Feel free to mix and match and use these as passwords. They would be good passwords. I'm not using any of them. I swear.
 
-```
-$ passphrase 5
+```shell
+$ passphrase -c 5 -s
 
 tree eardrum format
 yachts guerilla sheepdog
diff --git a/passphrase b/passphrase
index 5347248..2493c54 100755
--- a/passphrase
+++ b/passphrase
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ while [[ $# > 0 ]]; do # iterate through arguments, one or two steps at a time
 	key="$1" # argument key
 	
 	case $key in 
-		-s|--space) # we want spaces b/w words
+		-s) # we want spaces b/w words
 			SPACE=1
 			# since this option takes no value argument, we only want
 			# to shift ahead one argument
 			;;
 
-		-c|--count) # we want a certain number of groups
+		-c) # we want a certain number of groups
 			COUNT="$2"
 			# and since this does have a value, skip the value itself on
 			# the next scan... we know it's not an argument key