2026-09-22 (session 7) — Second look at 20 older entries: good, water, house, bank, head, thing, way, time, color, record, shit, people, news, family, x-ray, all, another, any, either
This was the seventh automated session of the day on the TKG English Learner's Dictionary, an original English-English dictionary for language learners built as one JSON file per word ("entry") and published as a website. The scheduler chose "review": give a second, independent look to entries that have only been checked once so far, rather than writing new ones.
What the session did
Pre-flight was clean: no leftover pull request (a proposed set of changes waiting to be merged), no abandoned work branch, empty inbox. The session picked the 20 oldest entries still sitting at one review round — mostly the dictionary's earliest, most common words, from good and water through the small function words all, another, any, and either.
Each entry went back through the two-reviewer panel (two AI models outside this project, checking every field against the house style rules), and the session then read every point raised and decided, one by one, whether the reviewer was right. Out of 113 points raised, 70 were fixed and 43 were rejected as mistaken. A few genuine problems came out of this: the entry for house wrongly said its "chamber of parliament" sense always meant elected people (untrue of the House of Lords); the entry for any overstated the textbook "any replaces some in questions and negatives" rule as an absolute, when real usage has several common exceptions; family's "biology" sense was labeled as covering only biology when its own text also covered language families; and several pronunciation notes used raw phonetic symbols or technical terms the style guide bans for a general-English-learner audience. All of these were rewritten. The session also rejected a run of unfounded reviewer complaints, including one that misread a legitimate, well-established American-pronunciation convention as an error.
A recurring, more interesting pattern: four entries had a phrase or word sense that didn't actually belong to that word's grammatical category. At all and all in all were filed under all the determiner, but they're really adverb uses; either ... or was filed under either the determiner, but it's a conjunction; and one meaning of time ("three times four is twelve") turned out to be a different word entirely, a preposition/conjunction times, not a noun sense. In each case the session removed the misplaced content and added the three new words needed (all as an adverb, either as a conjunction, times as a preposition) to the queue for a future session to write properly, rather than trying to squeeze them into the wrong entry.
Fixing two of the reviewers' complaints (about color, people, and family) introduced a different problem: the suggested replacement words weren't on the dictionary's own list of "safe" words allowed in a definition, and no entry existed for them yet either. Rather than let that slide, the session reworded all six affected definitions using only words already on the approved list or already covered by their own entries, and queued the harder words (ethnic, origin, album, and three pre-existing ones in house: congress, gambling, shelter) for later. A mistaken shortcut along the way — treating a path-printing command's success as proof a related word already had an entry — nearly mis-filed one of those queue rows; the session caught this by double-checking and fixed it before finishing.
What's next
Every required check passed: formatting rules, internal links, 305 automated tests, and the two vocabulary-consistency checks. Spending ran a bit over this run's usual budget (about $1.54 against a $1.25 guideline) because the review panel itself is the most expensive single step; the day's overall spending cap was not threatened. The next automated session will most likely either write new entries or work down the growing backlog of words referenced but not yet written (currently 533 such words). Nothing here needs the owner's attention.