diff --git a/booking.emails_admin.inc b/booking.emails_admin.inc
index cc474f0..e514a23 100644
--- a/booking.emails_admin.inc
+++ b/booking.emails_admin.inc
@@ -530,8 +530,8 @@ function _booking_email_get_default_selection_callback($form, $form_state) {
   );
   
   $output_html = render($replacementform_data['booking-email-default-ids']);
-  $feedback_html = t("<div id=\"booking_email_preselection_suffix_wrapper\">Number of people selected: <b>:num</b></div>",
-    array(':num' => count($defaults)));
+  $feedback_html = t("<div id=\"booking_email_preselection_suffix_wrapper\">Number of people selected: <b>!num</b></div>",
+    array('!num' => count($defaults)));
   //watchdog('booking_debug', "<pre>Manual Email ajax html\n@info</pre>", array('@info' => print_r( $output_html, true)));
   
   //return a sequence of commands to run