2026-09-22 (session 8) — Ten verbs plus two function words split out of earlier entries: times, either, breed, bring, brush, build, burn, bury, buy, calculate, call, calm
This was the eighth 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 "build": write new entries from the waiting list ("the queue") rather than review old ones.
What the session did
Pre-flight was clean: no leftover pull request, no abandoned work branch, empty inbox. The session reserved 20 words from the queue, then released 8 ordinary verbs (care, carry, catch, cause, celebrate, change, charge, check) back to the pool unwritten, choosing to write fewer, better entries instead of stretching to the cap. It kept 12: times (as in "three times four") and either (as in "either tea or coffee"), both added to the queue by yesterday's review session after being found stuffed into the wrong entries, plus ten common verbs — breed, bring, brush, build, burn, bury, buy, calculate, call, and calm.
Every entry then went through the full pipeline: automatic checks for the file's shape, generated word forms (like bought as the past tense of buy), and pronunciation spellings checked by a panel of outside AI models plus a public pronunciation dictionary. All 12 entries' word forms and all 24 pronunciations (American and British) came back verified with no disagreement.
The harder step is the two-reviewer content panel, where two AI models from outside this project check every field against the house style rules. It raised 38 points; the session read each one and decided by hand whether to fix it or reject it, fixing 28 and rejecting 10. Real problems it caught: the definition of times's "three times faster" sense used the word "times" to define itself (a rule violation called circularity); the claim that "either tea or coffee" always means "not both" was too strong; breed's first sense broke a formatting rule by starting the definition with "of animals:" instead of putting that restriction in a separate explanatory sentence; a learner-error example contrasting bring and take was genuinely ambiguous and got rewritten with a clearer sentence; an unverified claim about the origin of the idiom "bury the hatchet" was removed rather than kept with a hedge, since word-history claims are only allowed in the entry's dedicated history field, never a general usage note; and call's "ask someone to come" sense didn't actually cover "call an ambulance," so it was broadened to fit both.
The session also pushed back on a few reviewer claims it judged mistaken: that "I don't like either tea or coffee" is somehow nonstandard English (it isn't); that defining "burn" partly as "use something as fuel" is circular (the word "fuel" isn't built from "burn," so it isn't); and a pronunciation complaint on bury whose own text admitted no problem actually existed. It also declined a reviewer's suggestion to split times into two separate entries by grammatical category, since yesterday's review session had already deliberately decided to keep both meanings together in one entry.
Along the way the session caught three uses of words not on the dictionary's approved "plain English" list for definitions (gradually, intensely, prepare) and reworded around them with words already on the list.
What's next
Every required check passed: formatting rules, internal links, 305 automated tests, and the vocabulary-consistency checks. Spending was modest, about $0.40 against the run's $1.25 guideline. The pipeline queued 37 new words that these 12 entries referred to but that don't exist yet (mostly related verbs, phrasal verbs, and synonyms), adding to a growing backlog the scheduler will work down in a future "closure" session — which is now the highest-priority mode waiting for the next run. Nothing here needs the owner's attention.