diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 7f6baa8f5..d85a74410 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2001-08-12  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
+	* cmd.c (guess_message_value): Typo - replace "LC_MESSAGE" with
+	"LC_MESSAGES".
+
 	* dir.c (string_sortcomp) [HAVE_STRCOLL]: Always use strcmp()
 	for case sensitive sort.  For case insensitive sort use
 	strcoll() if it's case insensitive for ASCII and g_strcasecmp()
diff --git a/src/cmd.c b/src/cmd.c
index 9c5867108..e554bf2f7 100644
--- a/src/cmd.c
+++ b/src/cmd.c
@@ -1206,8 +1206,8 @@ void mkdir_panel_cmd (void)
     mkdir_cmd (cpanel);
 }
 
-/* partly taken from dcgettect.c, returns "" for C locale */
-/* value should be gfreed by calling function */
+/* partly taken from dcigettext.c, returns "" for default locale */
+/* value should be freed by calling function g_free() */
 char *guess_message_value (unsigned want_info)
 {
     const char *var[] = {
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ char *guess_message_value (unsigned want_info)
 	/* Setting of LC_ALL overwrites all other.  */
 	"LC_ALL",
 	/* Next comes the name of the desired category.  */
-	"LC_MESSAGE",
+	"LC_MESSAGES",
         /* Last possibility is the LANG environment variable.  */
 	"LANG",
 	/* NULL exit loops */