diff --git a/recipes/cacm.recipe b/recipes/cacm.recipe
index a4f209b911..aee3c68eca 100644
--- a/recipes/cacm.recipe
+++ b/recipes/cacm.recipe
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 class CACM(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = "ACM CACM Magazine"
     description = "Published on day 1 of every month."
+    language = 'en'
     oldest_article = 30
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
     auto_cleanup = True
diff --git a/recipes/epoch_times.recipe b/recipes/epoch_times.recipe
index 9a59222e73..150dc7651d 100644
--- a/recipes/epoch_times.recipe
+++ b/recipes/epoch_times.recipe
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ class EpochTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = 'The Epoch Times'
     __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
     description = 'US general news'
-    lang = 'en_US'
+    language = 'en_US'
     encoding = 'utf-8'
     oldest_article = 2
     max_articles_per_feed = 10