diff -Naur coreutils-5.97.orig/src/dd.c coreutils-5.97/src/dd.c
--- coreutils-5.97.orig/src/dd.c	2005-11-02 14:18:47.000000000 +0100
+++ coreutils-5.97/src/dd.c	2006-08-15 20:42:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@
 
   if (r_truncate != 0)
     fprintf (stderr,
-	     ngettext ("1 truncated record\n",
+	     ngettext ("%"PRIuMAX" truncated record\n",
 		       "%"PRIuMAX" truncated records\n",
 		       MIN (r_truncate, ULONG_MAX)),
 	     r_truncate);
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@
      since that makes it easy to use SI abbreviations.  */
 
   fprintf (stderr,
-	   ngettext ("1 byte (1 B) copied",
+	   ngettext ("%"PRIuMAX" byte (%s) copied",
 		     "%"PRIuMAX" bytes (%s) copied",
 		     MIN (w_bytes, ULONG_MAX)),
 	   w_bytes,