diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index a63e93658a..4c3164e3ff 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -113,6 +113,6 @@ require('wp-blog-header.php');
 
 </div>
 
-<p class="credit"><!--<?php echo $wpdb->querycount; ?> queries.--> <?php timer_stop(1); ?> || <cite><?php $lang->str('powered_by'); ?> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="<?php $lang->str('powered_by_title'); ?>"><strong><?php $lang->str('wordpress'); ?></strong></a></cite></p>
+<p class="credit"><!--<?php echo $wpdb->querycount; ?> queries.--> <?php timer_stop(1); ?> || <?php $lang->str('powered_by_wordpress',$lang->str('powered_by_title','',1)); ?></p>
 </body>
 </html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-comments-popup.php b/wp-comments-popup.php
index c289fc35cd..d43b8995b7 100644
--- a/wp-comments-popup.php
+++ b/wp-comments-popup.php
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp();
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
-	<title><?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?> - Comments on "<?php the_title() ?>"</title>
+	<title><?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?> - <?php $lang->str('comments_on',the_title('','',false)); ?></title>
 
 	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp();
 
 <h1 id="header"><a href="" title="<?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?>"><?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?></a></h1>
 
-<h2 id="comments">Comments</h2>
+<h2 id="comments"><?php $lang->str('comments'); ?></h2>
 
-<p><a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=<?php echo $post->ID; ?>">RSS feed for comments on this post.</a></p>
+<p><a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=<?php echo $post->ID; ?>"><?php $lang->str('comments_rss_post'); ?></a></p>
 
 <?php if ('open' == $post->ping_status) { ?>
-<p>The <acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym> to TrackBack this entry is: <em><?php trackback_url() ?></em></p>
+<p><?php $lang->str('trackback_uri'); ?> <em><?php trackback_url() ?></em></p>
 <?php } ?>
 
 <?php
@@ -45,54 +45,54 @@ if (!empty($commentstatus->post_password) && $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['wp-postpass_'.$c
 <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>
 	<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
 	<?php comment_text() ?>
-	<p><cite><?php comment_type(); ?> by <?php comment_author_link() ?> &#8212; <?php comment_date() ?> @ <a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"><?php comment_time() ?></a></cite></p>
+	<p><cite><?php comment_type(); ?> <?php $lang->str('by'); ?> <?php comment_author_link() ?> &#8212; <?php comment_date() ?> @ <a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"><?php comment_time() ?></a></cite></p>
 	</li>
 
 <?php } // end for each comment ?>
 </ol>
 <?php } else { // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
-	<p>No comments yet.</p>
+	<p><?php $lang->str('no_comments'); ?></p>
 <?php } ?>
 
 <?php if ('open' == $commentstatus->comment_status) { ?>
-<h2>Leave a Comment</h2>
-<p>Line and paragraph breaks automatic, email address never displayed, <acronym title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</acronym> allowed: <code><?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></code></p>
+<h2><?php $lang->str('leave_a_comment'); ?></h2>
+<p><?php $lang->str('comment_instructions'); ?> <code><?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></code></p>
 
 <form action="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
 	<p>
 	  <input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="textarea" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="28" tabindex="1" />
-	   <label for="author">Name</label>
+	   <label for="author"><?php $lang->str('comment_name'); ?></label>
 	<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
 	<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); ?>" />
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
 	  <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="28" tabindex="2" />
-	   <label for="email">Email</label>
+	   <label for="email"><?php $lang->str('comment_email'); ?></label>
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
 	  <input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="28" tabindex="3" />
-	   <label for="url"><acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym></label>
+	   <label for="url"><?php $lang->str('comment_uri'); ?></label>
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
-	  <label for="comment">Your Comment</label>
+	  <label for="comment"><?php $lang->str('comment_body'); ?></label>
 	<br />
 	  <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="70" rows="4" tabindex="4"></textarea>
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
-	  <input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="Say it!" />
+	  <input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php $lang->str('say_it'); ?>" />
 	</p>
 </form>
 <?php } else { // comments are closed ?>
-<p>Sorry, comments are closed at this time.</p>
+<p><?php $lang->str('comments_closed'); ?></p>
 <?php }
 } // end password check
 ?>
 
-<div><strong><a href="javascript:window.close()">Close this window</a>.</strong></div>
+<div><strong><a href="javascript:window.close()"><?php $lang->str('close_window'); ?></a></strong></div>
 
 <?php // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head
 }
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ if (!empty($commentstatus->post_password) && $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['wp-postpass_'.$c
 
 <!-- // this is just the end of the motor - don't touch that line either :) -->
 <?php //} ?> 
-<p class="credit"><?php timer_stop(1); ?> <cite>Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org"><strong>Wordpress</strong></a></cite></p>
+<p class="credit"><?php timer_stop(1); ?> <?php $lang->str('powered_by_wordpress',$lang->str('powered_by_title','',1)); ?></p>
 <?php // Seen at http://www.mijnkopthee.nl/log2/archive/2003/05/28/esc(18) ?>
 <script type="text/javascript">
 <!--
diff --git a/wp-includes/languages/english.php b/wp-includes/languages/english.php
index ba169cc4ca..ab07800c18 100644
--- a/wp-includes/languages/english.php
+++ b/wp-includes/languages/english.php
@@ -17,16 +17,18 @@ $lang->strings = array(
 ,"archives" => "Archives:"
 ,"by" => "by"
 ,"categories" => "Categories:"
+,"close_window" => "Close this window."
+,"comment_body" => "Your Comment"
 ,"comment_count_0" => "Comments (0)"
 ,"comment_count_1" => "Comments (1)"
 ,"comment_count_n" => "Comments (%)"
-,"comments" => "Comments"
-,"comments_closed" => "Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time."
-,"comments_instruction" => 'Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, <acronym title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</acronym> allowed:'
-,"comment_body" => "Your Comment"
 ,"comment_email" => "E-mail"
 ,"comment_name" => "Name"
 ,"comment_uri" => '<acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym>'
+,"comments" => "Comments"
+,"comments_closed" => "Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time."
+,"comments_instruction" => 'Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, <acronym title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</acronym> allowed:'
+,"comments_on" => "Comments on __0" // post title
 ,"comments_password" => "Enter your password to view comments."
 ,"comments_rss_2" => 'Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> 2.0'
 ,"comments_rss_2_title" => "The latest comments to all posts in RSS"
@@ -40,8 +42,8 @@ $lang->strings = array(
 ,"no_posts_matched" => "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria."
 ,"other" => "Other:"
 ,"pages" => "Pages:"
-,"powered_by" => "Powered by "
-,"powered_by_title" => "Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform"
+,"powered_by_title" => "Powered by WordPress; state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform."
+,"powered_by_wordpress" => '<cite>Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="__0"><strong>Wordpress</strong></a></cite>' // powered_by_title
 ,"register" => "Register"
 ,"rss_2" => '<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> 2.0'
 ,"rss_2_title" => "Syndicate this site using RSS"
