diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0671464..361b333 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ and hooks. The level for those entries is `info`.
 
 This means that we can override the standard library logger easily:
 
-```
+```go
 logger := logrus.New()
 logger.Formatter = &logrus.JSONFormatter{}
 
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ logger.Formatter = &logrus.JSONFormatter{}
 // Note that `log` here references stdlib's log
 // Not logrus imported under the name `log`.
 log.SetOutput(logger.Writer())
-``
+```
 
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