diff --git a/src/wp-admin/options-permalink.php b/src/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
index 4ec1c1b269..6fab4d2143 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
+++ b/src/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ $structures = array(
 <h2 class="title"><?php _e('Optional'); ?></h2>
 <p><?php
 /* translators: %s is a placeholder that must come at the start of the URL. */
-printf( __('If you like, you may enter custom structures for your category and tag <abbr title="Universal Resource Locator">URL</abbr>s here. For example, using <code>topics</code> as your category base would make your category links like <code>%s/topics/uncategorized/</code>. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.'), get_option('home') . $blog_prefix . $prefix ); ?></p>
+printf( __( 'If you like, you may enter custom structures for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using <code>topics</code> as your category base would make your category links like <code>%s/topics/uncategorized/</code>. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.' ), get_option( 'home' ) . $blog_prefix . $prefix ); ?></p>
 
 <table class="form-table">
 	<tr>
diff --git a/src/wp-admin/options-writing.php b/src/wp-admin/options-writing.php
index 9fb2db08d6..93b583bfd1 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+++ b/src/wp-admin/options-writing.php
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ if ( apply_filters( 'enable_update_services_configuration', true ) ) {
 
 <?php if ( 1 == get_option('blog_public') ) : ?>
 
-<p><label for="ping_sites"><?php _e('When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the following site update services. For more about this, see <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services">Update Services</a> on the Codex. Separate multiple service <abbr title="Universal Resource Locator">URL</abbr>s with line breaks.') ?></label></p>
+<p><label for="ping_sites"><?php _e( 'When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the following site update services. For more about this, see <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services">Update Services</a> on the Codex. Separate multiple service URLs with line breaks.' ) ?></label></p>
 
 <textarea name="ping_sites" id="ping_sites" class="large-text code" rows="3"><?php echo esc_textarea( get_option('ping_sites') ); ?></textarea>