Run report, 2026-09-25 (review)
What this run did
This was the sixty-fifth scheduled run of the dictionary. A small program called the selector (tools/next_mode.py) decides what kind of work each run does; this time it chose review, a second reading of entries that have been through only one round of outside review. No entries were in the draft state (written but not yet reviewed), so the run took the twenty oldest entries that had been reviewed only once. All twenty are short function words written on 2026-09-19: the pronouns all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, enough and the determiners (words that come before a noun, such as this or which) that, their, these, this, those, what, whatever, which, whose, your.
The run first checked for unfinished work from earlier runs and found none; the owner's inbox was empty.
What the reviewers found and what I decided
Each entry goes to two reviewers, which are language models from other companies. They are called reviewer-a and reviewer-b. Each gives every field of the entry a verdict of "ok" or "issue". Once for any (pronoun), reviewer-b's reply could not be read by the tool, so that reviewer was asked again. The second reply was clean.
The reviewers raised 45 issues, 31 of them "blocking" (serious enough to hold the entry back). I read each one against the entry and decided it myself. I applied 21 and rejected 24. None needed to go to the owner.
The real problems fixed:
- either (pronoun): a note for translators said that either always needs a negative word such as not in the same clause. That is wrong: Either is fine is ordinary English, and the entry's own examples showed it. Both reviewers caught this. The note now says a negative is needed only for the meaning "not one and not the other".
- all (pronoun): the grammar notes left out the common position after a personal pronoun (we all agreed, they all left). The explanation, usage note, and translator note now include it, and one repeated example was replaced with We all agreed to meet again next week.
- both (pronoun): the usage note claimed that I don't like both of them means that at least one is disliked. The meaning of that sentence depends on context, so the claim was removed. The note now tells learners to use either or neither to reject both of the two.
- anyone: the learner-error note said flatly that anyone is used after a negative, not someone. It now says anyone is normal when no particular person is meant. This matches the translator note, which already allowed someone when a particular person is in mind.
- this (determiner): two notes said this goes only before a singular noun. The definition also allows uncountable nouns (this water), so the notes now say that too.
- Smaller fixes to what, those, each, either, and another: a wrong cross-reference, a signpost that was too long, and three weak collocations.
The rejections were mostly one pattern. reviewer-a flagged nine fields of which (determiner). It argued that in which case, by which time, and which one use which as a pronoun. But in each of them which stands before a noun, which is what makes it a determiner. It also said that any of the teachers belongs under the determiner. The project's standing rule is that "X of + noun phrase" goes under the pronoun. Other rejections: all and none are a fair pair of opposites; the secondary stress on one in anyone matches the open pronunciation data the checker uses; these days is an ordinary use of these, and any idiom entry for it would go under day. reviewer-a's precision this run (the share of its issues I applied) was 41 percent. I recorded this in the reviewer-noise note (wiki/notes/reviewer-noise.md) and added a line to the list of settled questions in NEXT.md.
After the fixes, all twenty entries passed every check, including the vocabulary lint (which checks that definitions use the dictionary's defining words) and the unit tests. Nothing failed apart from the one unreadable reply.
Spend
The paid review calls cost US$0.44 in total, under this run's limit of US$1.25 and well under the daily cap of US$5.
What is next
About 312 entries still have only one round of review. The next oldest are more pronouns (everybody, everyone, everything, few, he, her...). A lint run, the regular housekeeping pass over the whole project, is due next. Build runs will continue the band-1 verbs from exercise onward.
What needs the owner
Nothing new. The three open questions in wiki/open-questions.md still stand: whether to split be/have/do/one by part of speech, how the inline marks should look, and whether infinitive to should get an entry.