diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e3d75fc..43c599b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Basically Basic is a [Jekyll theme](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/) meant as
 
 ## Configuration
 
-Configuration of site-wide elements (`title`, `description`, `author`, etc.) happens in your project's `_config.yml`. See the [example configuration](/example/_config.yml) for reference.
+Configuration of site-wide elements (`lang`, `title`, `description`, `author`, etc.) happens in your project's `_config.yml`. See the [example configuration](example/_config.yml) in this repo for reference.
 
 ### Skin
 
diff --git a/example/_config.yml b/example/_config.yml
index 23a3049..980d2f7 100644
--- a/example/_config.yml
+++ b/example/_config.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # you will see them accessed via {{ site.title }}, {{ site.email }}, and so on.
 # You can create any custom variable you would like, and they will be accessible
 # in the templates via {{ site.myvariable }}.
+lang: en-US
 title: Your awesome title that could be long
 email: your-email@domain.com
 description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"