diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ce4171a..e1e9729 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ forbidigo is a Go static analysis tool to forbidigo use of particular identifier
 
     forbidigo [flags...] patterns... -- packages...
 
-If no patterns are specified, the default pattern of `^fmt\.Print.*$` is used to eliminate debug statememts.  By default,
+If no patterns are specified, the default pattern of `^(fmt\.Print.*|print|println)$` is used to eliminate debug statements.  By default,
 functions (and whole files), that are identifies as Godoc examples (https://blog.golang.org/examples) are excluded from 
 checking.
 
diff --git a/examples/example.go b/examples/example.go
index 249d49d..c8c591e 100644
--- a/examples/example.go
+++ b/examples/example.go
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ import "fmt"
 func Foo() {
 	fmt.Println("here I am")
 	fmt.Printf("this is ok") //permit:fmt.Printf // this is ok
+	print("not ok")
+	println("also not ok")
 }
diff --git a/examples/expected_results.txt b/examples/expected_results.txt
index 2285cf0..7bedf18 100644
--- a/examples/expected_results.txt
+++ b/examples/expected_results.txt
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-use of `fmt.Println` forbidden by pattern `^fmt\.Print(|f|ln)$` at CURDIR/examples/example.go:6:2
+use of `fmt.Println` forbidden by pattern `^(fmt\.Print(|f|ln)|print|println)$` at CURDIR/examples/example.go:6:2
+use of `print` forbidden by pattern `^(fmt\.Print(|f|ln)|print|println)$` at CURDIR/examples/example.go:8:2
+use of `println` forbidden by pattern `^(fmt\.Print(|f|ln)|print|println)$` at CURDIR/examples/example.go:9:2
diff --git a/forbidigo/forbidigo.go b/forbidigo/forbidigo.go
index e77c2c6..2337404 100644
--- a/forbidigo/forbidigo.go
+++ b/forbidigo/forbidigo.go
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ type Linter struct {
 }
 
 func DefaultPatterns() []string {
-	return []string{`^fmt\.Print(|f|ln)$`}
+	return []string{`^(fmt\.Print(|f|ln)|print|println)$`}
 }
 
 //go:generate go-options config