diff --git a/actionmailer/README.rdoc b/actionmailer/README.rdoc
index 64b0333c0a..b52c993f56 100644
--- a/actionmailer/README.rdoc
+++ b/actionmailer/README.rdoc
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ Or you can just chain the methods together like:
 
 == Receiving emails
 
-To receive emails, you need to implement a public instance method called receive that takes a
+To receive emails, you need to implement a public instance method called <tt>receive</tt> that takes a
 tmail object as its single parameter. The Action Mailer framework has a corresponding class method, 
-which is also called receive, that accepts a raw, unprocessed email as a string, which it then turns
+which is also called <tt>receive</tt>, that accepts a raw, unprocessed email as a string, which it then turns
 into the tmail object and calls the receive instance method.
 
 Example: