Title: Replace default english words
Last modified: October 20, 2018

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# Replace default english words

 *  Resolved [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/)
 * Hi, my site is in english and I want to replace some of the strings in the english
   language with other terms (in english). How can this be achieved? Thanks.
 * p.s. I have already the .po and .mo files available (done in a different tool).
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/).

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 *  Thread Starter [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/#post-10800511)
 * Found this: [https://wpml.org/forums/topic/edit-strings-of-default-language/page/2/](https://wpml.org/forums/topic/edit-strings-of-default-language/page/2/)
 * Any news on this?
 *  [George Botsev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/botzev/)
 * (@botzev)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/#post-10803363)
 * Hello.
    This is a forum related to WooCommerce Multilingual. Please direct your
   WPML questions to the WPML forum. To respond to you – if you wish to change the
   default language of the strings – you can either use the method that is described
   to work in that ticket or just change the string itself so that represents the
   value that you want to translate.
 *  Thread Starter [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/#post-10804229)
 * Hi, what method should I use to change the string itself? Is this possible in
   the tool itself or did you refer replacing the contents in the actual file manually?
   Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/#post-10807991)
 * Anyone?
 *  [George Botsev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/botzev/)
 * (@botzev)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/#post-10809949)
 * Hello!
    For some reason, my previous reply was not published here, so I am writing
   again. As you already noted in the ticket that you referred to in WPML forum,
   you can do what you want by changing the string language to some other language,
   and then translate to the default language. I would not advise using that method
   as it is not the proper way of how things are intended to work. And yes, I was
   suggesting that you should edit the file manually.
 *  Thread Starter [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/#post-10811470)
 * Ok, thanks!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Andreas Panag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewp-2/)
 * (@andrewp-2)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-english-words/#post-11439024)
 * Since we don’t have news for some time, I am closing this ticket.
 * If you still have problem, please feel free to open a ticket in wpml.org so we
   can help you.
 * Thank you very much

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