diff --git a/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_counts.py b/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_counts.py
index c44f0cf..4efe1d9 100644
--- a/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_counts.py
+++ b/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_counts.py
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ def merge_lists(input_names, output_name, cutoff=0):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', help='filename to write the output to', default='combined-counts.csv')
-    parser.add_argument('-c', '--cutoff', type=int, default=0, help='minimum count to read from an input file')
-    parser.add_argument('inputs', help='names of input files to merge', nargs='+')
+    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', default='combined-counts.csv',
+                        help='filename to write the output to')
+    parser.add_argument('-c', '--cutoff', type=int, default=0
+                        help='minimum count to read from an input file')
+    parser.add_argument('inputs', nargs='+',
+                        help='names of input files to merge')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     merge_lists(args.inputs, args.output, cutoff=args.cutoff)
 
diff --git a/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_freqs.py b/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_freqs.py
index ddc308c..e16660b 100644
--- a/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_freqs.py
+++ b/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/cli/merge_freqs.py
@@ -18,10 +18,14 @@ def merge_lists(input_names, output_name, cutoff, lang):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', help='filename to write the output to', default='combined-freqs.csv')
-    parser.add_argument('-c', '--cutoff', type=int, help='stop after seeing a count below this', default=2)
-    parser.add_argument('-l', '--language', help='language code for which language the words are in', default=None)
-    parser.add_argument('inputs', help='names of input files to merge', nargs='+')
+    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', default='combined-freqs.csv',
+                        help='filename to write the output to')
+    parser.add_argument('-c', '--cutoff', type=int, default=2,
+                        help='stop after seeing a count below this')
+    parser.add_argument('-l', '--language', default=None,
+                        help='language code for which language the words are in')
+    parser.add_argument('inputs', nargs='+',
+                        help='names of input files to merge')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     merge_lists(args.inputs, args.output, args.cutoff, args.language)