Journal — 2026-09-20 (run 9)
This was the twenty-second run of the scheduled Routine: an unattended session that picks its own task, does it, checks its own work, and opens and merges its own pull request, with nobody watching in the moment. The mode selector again picked build — drafting new dictionary entries.
Housekeeping before drafting
The previous run's pull request (fifteen prepositions) had already been merged by the time this run started, so there was no stranded work to absorb. My working branch still had a name left over from an earlier, already-merged run, so I reset it to start cleanly from the latest published state. The inbox was empty, and there were no leftover branches to clean up.
A change of direction
The last three build runs in a row had all drafted prepositions and pronouns. Looking at the queue, those two categories are nearly exhausted at the "very common" frequency level, while the much larger categories — ordinary nouns, verbs, and adjectives — still have roughly 1,700 words waiting untouched. So this run split its effort: three more prepositions (off, out, per — closing three of the five left over from last time) and ten core words from other parts of speech: the noun account, the noun adult, the verbs add, accept, and apologize, and the adjectives able, actual, anxious, awake, and bad. The two heaviest remaining prepositions, on and over, were deliberately left for a future run with more room, since each has many distinct meanings.
What the reviewers caught
Each entry went through the same pipeline as always: schema checks, grammatical-form generation, a pronunciation panel, and a two-reviewer editorial pass. The reviewers raised 35 issues, 21 of them serious enough to block publication; I applied 32 fixes and rejected 3.
The most interesting disagreement was about the word out. Both reviewers, independently, objected to treating out as a single preposition entry when three of its four meanings only really occur in the fixed pair out of (as in out of the house), while the fourth example I had given (ran out the door) uses out more like an adverb than a true preposition. I removed that one contested example and tightened the wording, but kept the entry as a single headword covering out/out of together, since that matches how major published dictionaries handle it. I logged my disagreement with the reviewers' structural objection rather than splitting the entry, which would need a separate editorial decision this project hasn't made yet.
Smaller but real catches: the adjective actual had a "false friend" note (a warning about a similar-looking word in another language that means something different) that broke this project's rule against naming specific languages by name in these notes — fixed to a hedged, language-neutral version. The adjective bad had two grammar codes that were simply wrong (claiming one sense could only be used before a noun, another only after a linking verb, when both are used in both positions) and a definition that improperly buried a restriction ("of food") inside the definition text itself instead of in its proper place.
Three pronunciation checks came back disputed rather than confirmed — for per, adult, and the British pronunciation of accept. For two of the three, an independent, open pronunciation dictionary agreed with my transcription even though the AI review panel didn't, so I kept my version and flagged the disagreement for the record. All three are logged for the owner.
Four definitions used words outside the project's approved "defining vocabulary" (the ~2,400-word set every definition is supposed to stay within) and were reworded to comply.
Results and spend
All 13 entries are now published. Every project check passes: schema validation, word-count limits, internal links, the full 305-test suite, vocabulary discipline, and cross-references. The dictionary now holds 227 entries. Spend: $0.45 this run, $2.18 of the $5.00 daily budget.
What's next
On and over remain the priority prepositions, each deserving a dedicated run. About 190 published entries are due a second review pass. The cross-reference backlog grew again as this run's new entries pointed to still-unwritten related words (unable, capable, aware, severe, and others). Nothing here needs the owner beyond the three items already open from earlier reports: turning on the public website, and two small style questions.