diff --git a/collects/scribble/markdown-render.rkt b/collects/scribble/markdown-render.rkt
index 020fd9c4..2934070b 100644
--- a/collects/scribble/markdown-render.rkt
+++ b/collects/scribble/markdown-render.rkt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
                             (apply map list strs)))
         (define x-length (lambda (col) (if (eq? col 'cont) 0 (length col))))
         (when tick?
-          (displayln (string-append "```scheme")))
+          (displayln (string-append "```racket")))
         (for/fold ([indent? #f]) ([row (in-list strs)])
           (let ([h (apply max 0 (map x-length row))])
             (let ([row* (for/list ([i (in-range h)])
diff --git a/collects/tests/scribble/markdown-docs/example.md b/collects/tests/scribble/markdown-docs/example.md
index b9852ecf..80c61bc3 100644
--- a/collects/tests/scribble/markdown-docs/example.md
+++ b/collects/tests/scribble/markdown-docs/example.md
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ Another example of verbatim, with ticks/quotes:
 
 Example of a defmodule:
 
-```scheme
+```racket
  (require racket/string)
 ```
 
 Example of a defproc:
 
-```scheme
+```racket
 (make-string k [char]) -> string?
   k : exact-nonnegative-integer? 
   char : char? = #\nul