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The Words That Are Waiting

Written 2026-08-24. Claims re-read against their sources on 2026-10-01: 112 checked, 66 confirmed, 45 wrong, 0 unverifiable, 1 true when written and overtaken since (dated, not corrected). By the assay line (research/assay-line/trial-1001/), Codex fixer directed by claude-assaying-codex-0929; source record by Codex, checked by Codex and a Claude agent.

This was the directed 2026-10-01 repair pass for the-words-that-are-waiting at 9a0c8a4186, using the supplied source record, both checker records and triage after re-reading the evidence for each edit. It records all 46 triage items and preserves 66 non-triaged CONFIRMED claims from the checkers; the directing triage takes precedence where their verdicts differ. 28 WRONG and 17 MINOR lines count toward wrong; the two placard lines are WRONG, held by board note d24c18. Listed claims remain unchanged, and the one MINOR repair has no page correction line. The selector was checked across every grid cell; dictionary counts are preserved, and neither those counts nor a green verifier are a claim about all English. The report records unchanged shared and raster copies and the additional dictionary-comment finding outside triage.

Claims

• MINOR [X1] Every English monosyllable is an onset, a vowel and a coda.
  https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/linguistics/home/all-about-linguistics/about-website/branches-linguistics/phonology/how-phonology-studied; git show 3fa55eb20c:research/the-words-that-are-waiting/data/cmudict.dict : Entry 1 (monosyllable-vowel): The source says the nucleus is "usually a vowel". The frozen dictionary includes "hmm HH M" and "hm HH M", which these engines exclude. The vowel-only representation is a stated modeling restriction, not literally every English monosyllable. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [X2] Take every onset English actually uses, every vowel and every coda, and cross them: 126 by 15 by 276 is 521,640 combinations, of which just 10,525 are things anybody says.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/engine-b.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• MINOR [X3] The Artificial Wasteland grids the other 511,115 and lets you sort them, and the top of that list turns out not to be noise.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js : Entry 3 (dek-grid-and-sort): The source really says "const rows = RESULT.gap_examples.slice(0, 60);". Both sort choices act on these 60 rows, not all 511,115 gaps. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [X4] Nine cells in the whole language are the single empty seat in an otherwise full row.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:research/_wave-2026-08-24/out/the-words-that-are-waiting.B.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• WRONG [X5] A grid of every onset, vowel and coda English uses, showing which combinations are real words and which are not.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/engine-b.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• MINOR [X6] It reads one pronouncing dictionary of one accent, so a word missing here may still be said somewhere.
  http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict : Entry 9 (dictionary-accent-limit): The source says "North American English", not a single specified accent. Its warning that omitted words can exist is supported; the exact one-accent restriction is not established by the cited excerpt. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• MINOR [X7] This one measures the shape of the words that do not, which is a question about empty space.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/engine-b.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick : Entry 12 (nearby-empty-space): Engine B defines a gap as a triple "not itself an attested syllable" in the supplied dictionary. Cambridge still has "ick" at "/ɪk/". The absence being measured needs a dictionary qualifier. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• MINOR [X8] The same pronunciations answer both, and neither can see past the one accent they encode.
  http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict : Entry 13 (nearby-one-accent): The source calls its coverage "North American English". It does not identify a single accent. The warning about coverage is sound; the singular accent assertion is stronger than its source. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [X9] A phonotactic gap is the friendlier kind: perfectly reachable, entirely legal, and simply never used.
  https://linguistlist.org/issues/14/2944/ : The source distinguishes accidental gaps permitted by phonotactic constraints from systematic gaps excluded by them. The lawful unused kind is accidental; the grid also includes systematic gaps.
• WRONG [X10] The Artificial Wasteland takes all 135166 CMU dictionary pronunciations, keeps the 16931 one-syllable ones, and finds 10525 distinct syllables among 521640 possible onset-nucleus-coda combinations, leaving 511115 shapes English never uses.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• STALE [X11] "dateModified":"2026-08-24"
  git log -- public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/index.html; git show e7cdbb3ada:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/index.html : The first HTML commit e7cdbb3ada records 2026-08-24 as publication and modification. The file log records later changes on 2026-09-04, 2026-09-14 and 2026-09-27. The present edit is 2026-10-01.
• WRONG [X12] Cross every onset English actually uses (126 of them) against every nucleus (15) and every coda (276) and you get 521640 possible shapes, of which English fills only 10525.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• WRONG [X13] The other 511115 are words nobody says, and the pattern of which ones are missing is not random.
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/master/README; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• WRONG [X14] reads this HTML file as text and asserts the numbers it shows are the numbers the engines compute
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-report.md : The HTML number assertion is a nine-string presence test. In an isolated copy, changing only the opening sentence from 511115 to 511116 still passed 22/22. The prose now describes that limited test; the verifier logic and its published mirror are unchanged.
• WRONG [X15] The instrument's own word-per-cell lookup re-parses the dictionary separately from the engine, so a disagreement there would be visible rather than hidden.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; git show 3fa55eb20c:research/the-words-that-are-waiting/data/cmudict.dict; recreated: node runtime-audit.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs : The original lookup joined consonants without spaces, omitted apostrophe words and retained pronunciations with more than one vowel. The audit reproduced 7,468 attested cells marked free. The repaired lookup has exactly 10,525 keys, no missing or extra keys, and zero mismatches across 521,640 rendered cells. The page still does not compare the parses at runtime.
• WRONG [X16] Every other layer in this corpus computes its numbers once.
  memory/log.d/2026-08-23T1930Z-the-two-engines-wave.md : The contemporaneous log records three earlier layers computing a number two ways and six layers shipping two engines in this wave. The original universal claim was false when written, not stale.
• WRONG [X17] A figure they disagree about is withheld.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/two-engines.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs : two-engines.js calls guard for only six ge-* fields. The audit mutates Engine B n_entries: ge-entries is withheld while the independent instrument still reports 135166; the fixed HTML placard also remains. Both engines receive the same dictionary.
• MINOR [X18] What agreement rules out is the large class of mistakes only one of two independent authors would make.
  https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~uli/cs673/papers/EvaluationMultiVersionProgramming86.pdf : Entry 72 (single-author-errors): The cited PDF studies programs on "one million tests"; it does not establish the absence of latent unique-author mistakes. Agreement on this dictionary only excludes observable discrepancies on this input. Example: f(x)=x and g(x)=x except g(2)=3 agree at 1 despite a one-author defect. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [X19] A disagreement is different in kind: it is a defect, for certain, in an engine or in the specification.
  research/_wave-2026-08-24/capstone.mjs; public/_kit/concur.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs : The wave capstone assigns fault neither to two valid orderings of the same covering, explicitly permitted by the specification. A disagreement need not prove a defect.
• WRONG [X20] This layer's check works the answer out again from scratch, independently of this page.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; git show 3fa55eb20c:scripts/check-placard.mjs : Entry 80 (placard-check-independence): The placard generator uses this sentence for a page-blind check. This verifier explicitly executes "const html = readFileSync(join(pubDir, 'index.html'), 'utf8');" and checks its contents, in addition to importing the page's own two modules. The quoted imports do not support the blind classification. Directing disposition: A generated placard line from research/verifier-independence/census.mjs, which misclasses this verifier as page-blind (it reads the page through a path variable). Board note filed; a shared-instrument fix, not this layer's. Recorded as WRONG and held by board note d24c18 (a shared-instrument fix); the underlying checker classified it WRONG.
• WRONG [X21] Both run in the reader's browser on the same dictionary and the page withholds any figure they disagree about.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/two-engines.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs : two-engines.js calls guard for only six ge-* fields. The audit mutates Engine B n_entries: ge-entries is withheld while the independent instrument still reports 135166; the fixed HTML placard also remains. Both engines receive the same dictionary.
• WRONG [X22] `research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs` runs both offline, asserts they agree, checks the numbers the shipped page prints against the numbers the engines compute, and carries controls that must go red under `--mutate`.
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-report.md : The HTML number assertion is a nine-string presence test. In an isolated copy, changing only the opening sentence from 511115 to 511116 still passed 22/22. The prose now describes that limited test; the verifier logic and its published mirror are unchanged.
• WRONG [X23] of 15 nuclei are already English words.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; git show 3fa55eb20c:research/the-words-that-are-waiting/data/cmudict.dict; recreated: node runtime-audit.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs : The original lookup joined consonants without spaces, omitted apostrophe words and retained pronunciations with more than one vowel. The audit reproduced 7,468 attested cells marked free. The repaired lookup has exactly 10,525 keys, no missing or extra keys, and zero mismatches across 521,640 rendered cells. The page still does not compare the parses at runtime.
• MINOR [X24] The two engines agree on every figure above, and rank the top gaps differently:
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/two-engines.js; recreated: node runtime-audit.mjs : Entry 92 (ranking-disagreement-branch): Dormant for the pinned inputs. Corrupting one scalar and replacing one top-gap member makes the panel withhold the scalar yet print "The two engines agree on every figure above". The nonidentical-set branch never checks scalar agreement. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• MINOR [X25] The specification pinned the score and the sort key but not the enumeration order behind them, which is exactly the kind of gap a second implementation exists to find.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/two-engines.js; git show 3fa55eb20c:research/_wave-2026-08-24/capstone.mjs : Entry 94 (ranking-enumeration-explanation): Dormant branch. The historical explanation is not supported by the quoted script itself. The capstone identifies the actual old ranking mismatch as "Ox ranked over a filtered subset rather than all 511,115 gaps", not unspecified enumeration order. A new mismatch also cannot be diagnosed from set overlap alone. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• MINOR [X26] Every factual claim is checked, and the working is shown on the page, so you never have to take our word for it.
  git show 3fa55eb20c:WAKE.md; git show 3fa55eb20c:oversight/claims-pass.md : Entry 99 (site-all-claims-checked): WAKE.md is a requirement, not evidence of universal completion. The pinned claims-pass brief says "nothing checked its claims about the world" for the earlier verifier regime and records false claims on 11 of 17 audited layers. This audit also demonstrates that the page-number check misses a changed sentence. Directing disposition: Shared site text (public/media/plain-button.js), a library-wide class raised with the human.
• MINOR [K1] [#1 monosyllable-vowel] Every English monosyllable is an onset, a vowel and a coda.
  https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/linguistics/home/all-about-linguistics/about-website/branches-linguistics/phonology/how-phonology-studied : Source: "The nucleus is the central and compulsory component of the syllable and is usually a vowel. However, the nucleus can also be a consonant"; onsets and codas "can also be absent". The frozen dictionary holds vowelless monosyllables the engines drop ("hmm HH M", "shh SH", "mm M"; 8 entries). The HTML dek (#23) says "a nucleus"; this md dek, also on the share image, archive, RSS and llms.txt, says "a vowel". Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [K2] [#2 dek-cartesian-counts] Take every onset English actually uses, every vowel and every coda, and cross them: 126 by 15 by 276 is 521,640 combinations, of which just 10,525 are things anybody says.
  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meh; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• MINOR [K3] [#3 dek-grid-and-sort] The Artificial Wasteland grids the other 511,115 and lets you sort them, and the top of that list turns out not to be noise.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js : The table sorts 60 of the 511,115 (line 146: "RESULT.gap_examples.slice(0, 60)"), by score or alphabetically. "the top of that list turns out not to be noise" holds (top 12 all lax open, recreated). Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [K4] [#6 nine-single-gaps] Nine cells in the whole language are the single empty seat in an otherwise full row.
  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• WRONG [K5] [#7 plain-grid] A grid of every onset, vowel and coda English uses, showing which combinations are real words and which are not.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• MINOR [K6] [#14 nearby-sound-meaning] That layer asks whether a word's sound leaks its meaning, across thousands of languages, and finds a weak effect that survives only because the sample is enormous.
  git show 60c91d8037:public/strata/the-word-that-gives-itself-away/page.js : "Thousands of languages" holds (5,505). But that layer never calls its effect weak or sample-driven: no "weak" (except "the weaker control"), "enormous", "sample" or "only because" in its HTML, page.js or md (controls "naive Bayes" and "guess" found). It says "It does not go to chance. Something survives the strongest cut available in this data, and it is smaller than the headline", and its dek gives "I is named correctly 25.7 percent of the time and tongue 24.9". Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [K7] [#17 phonotactic-gap-definition] A phonotactic gap is the friendlier kind: perfectly reachable, entirely legal, and simply never used.
  https://linguistlist.org/issues/14/2944/ : The source distinguishes accidental gaps permitted by phonotactic constraints from systematic gaps excluded by them. The lawful unused kind is accidental; the grid also includes systematic gaps.
• WRONG [K8] [#20 metadata-total-summary] The Artificial Wasteland takes all 135166 CMU dictionary pronunciations, keeps the 16931 one-syllable ones, and finds 10525 distinct syllables among 521640 possible onset-nucleus-coda combinations, leaving 511115 shapes English never uses.
  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• WRONG [K9] [#25 opening-grid-counts] Cross every onset English actually uses (126 of them) against every nucleus (15) and every coda (276) and you get 521640 possible shapes, of which English fills only 10525.
  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rez; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• WRONG [K10] [#26 nobody-says-gaps] The other 511115 are words nobody says, and the pattern of which ones are missing is not random.
  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rez; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ick?q=ick; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoick : Both engines reproduce the counts on the frozen dictionary. The audit finds no ick or hoick entry and leaves their IH K and HH OY K cells empty. Cambridge lists both words with those pronunciations; HH OY K is one of the nine single gaps. This proves dictionary scope, not a language-wide absence.
• MINOR [K11] [#40 ranked-gap-pattern] Rank the 511115 gaps by multiplying how common each part is, and the top of the list is almost entirely lax vowels left in open syllables.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js : Recreated: lax open cells are 12 of the top 12, 17 of 20, 30 of 60. Under the 60-row table the page itself prints "Of these 60 gaps, 30 are a lax vowel (IH, EH, AE, UH) in an open syllable." "Almost entirely" fits the first dozen rows, not the table shown. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [K12] [#50 verifier-page-count-check] reads this HTML file as text and asserts the numbers it shows are the numbers the engines compute
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-report.md : The HTML number assertion is a nine-string presence test. In an isolated copy, changing only the opening sentence from 511115 to 511116 still passed 22/22. The prose now describes that limited test; the verifier logic and its published mirror are unchanged.
• MINOR [K13] [#55 independent-engines-limit] Two independent engines agreeing is strong evidence against implementation error but cannot rule out a shared misreading of the specification itself.
  https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~uli/cs673/papers/EvaluationMultiVersionProgramming86.pdf : Excerpt present (abstract; read with pdftotext, which the tool cannot). But Knight and Leveson's shared faults were not shared readings of the specification: "This fault cannot be attributed to the specifications. Rather it was caused by a fundamental lack of understanding of numerical analysis", and "In our opinion, none involve ambiguity, inconsistency, or deficiency in the specification." The cited source shows agreement can also hide shared implementation errors, the risk this sentence leaves out. Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• WRONG [K14] [#57 separate-lookup] The instrument's own word-per-cell lookup re-parses the dictionary separately from the engine, so a disagreement there would be visible rather than hidden.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs : The original lookup joined consonants without spaces, omitted apostrophe words and retained pronunciations with more than one vowel. The audit reproduced 7,468 attested cells marked free. The repaired lookup has exactly 10,525 keys, no missing or extra keys, and zero mismatches across 521,640 rendered cells. The page still does not compare the parses at runtime.
• WRONG [K15] [#59 other-layers-compute-once] Every other layer in this corpus computes its numbers once.
  memory/log.d/2026-08-23T1930Z-the-two-engines-wave.md : The contemporaneous log records three earlier layers computing a number two ways and six layers shipping two engines in this wave. The original universal claim was false when written, not stale.
• WRONG [K16] [#80 placard-check-independence] This layer's check works the answer out again from scratch, independently of this page.
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs : It imports the page's own engines ("const engA = await import(pathToFileURL(join(pubDir, 'engine-a.mjs')))", lines 15, 26-27) and reads the page's index.html (line 110). Recreated: with every file the layer ships emptied it goes red (exit 1, "TypeError: engA.compute is not a function"); emptying only index.html fails 3 checks. scripts/check-placard.mjs prints this sentence for tier C0 (lines 99, 195); its own wording for this case is "imports and runs the very module this page runs" (line 94). Directing disposition: A generated placard line from research/verifier-independence/census.mjs, which misclasses this verifier as page-blind (it reads the page through a path variable). Board note filed; a shared-instrument fix, not this layer's. Recorded as WRONG and held by board note d24c18 (a shared-instrument fix); the underlying checker classified it WRONG.
• WRONG [K17] [#90 nucleus-taken-free] of 15 nuclei are already English words. (record scope: every selector state)
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/fixer-audit.mjs : The original lookup joined consonants without spaces, omitted apostrophe words and retained pronunciations with more than one vowel. The audit reproduced 7,468 attested cells marked free. The repaired lookup has exactly 10,525 keys, no missing or extra keys, and zero mismatches across 521,640 rendered cells. The page still does not compare the parses at runtime.
• MINOR [K18] [#95 seo-possible-words] English Words That Don't Exist But Could: Phonotactic Gaps
  https://linguistlist.org/issues/14/2944/ : The cited source separates gaps that could be words (accidental) from gaps that "don't exist for very good reasons" (systematic). The page's headline gaps are the second kind by its own rule, and some of its "don't exist" cells are words (meh, ick, fa, rez: see #26). Directing disposition: Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed.
• MINOR [K19] [#99 site-all-claims-checked] Every factual claim is checked, and the working is shown on the page, so you never have to take our word for it.
  git show 60c91d8037:WAKE.md : WAKE.md gives this as a rule ("Every factual claim is checked; every uncertainty is named in the work's own apparatus; *show the check*"), not as a measurement. On this page two claims have no source at all in the record (#5, #67) and no working shown, and #59 is false; oversight/claims-pass.md at the same commit records false or unsupported claims on 11 of 17 layers audited. Directing disposition: Shared site text (public/media/plain-button.js), a library-wide class raised with the human.
• MINOR [K20] index.html line 2 is a stray "```html", visible on the live page
  git show 9a0c8a4186:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/index.html : The original HTML has a literal Markdown opening fence immediately after the doctype. The HTML parser treats it as text. Removed that line only.
• CONFIRMED [#4 dek-open-syllable-rule] It is a real rule the grid rediscovers without being told: English does not end a stressed monosyllable in the vowel of bit, bet, bat or book.
  https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6505; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The phonology abstract describes the ordinary lax-vowel restriction to closed syllables. The page immediately names exceptions; the first twelve ranked gaps are all lax and open.
• CONFIRMED [#8 plain-gap-pattern] The empty cells at the top of the list are mostly one real rule about lax vowels, not random gaps.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The first 12, 20 and 30 gaps contain 12, 17 and 22 lax open cells. The full 60-row table has 30; this supports the top-of-list reading only. K11 separately lists the stronger wording.
• CONFIRMED [#10 nearby-cmudict] Also built on CMUdict, and also about what a single pronouncing dictionary can and cannot see.
  src/content/strata/two-words-in-every-five.md; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The sibling markdown names CMUdict as its pronunciation source.
• CONFIRMED [#11 nearby-homophones] That layer measures collisions among words that exist, which is a question about crowding.
  src/content/strata/two-words-in-every-five.md; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The sibling markdown describes a homophone-merging analysis.
• CONFIRMED [#15 nearby-small-grid] This one asks a narrower question of one language and gets a sharp answer from a small grid.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/engine-b.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : A description of this page's scope: one dictionary and one language.
• CONFIRMED [#16 garden-definition] A Garden of Eden is a configuration a system can never reach, which is absence by law.
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07837; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The paper defines these configurations by the absence of predecessors; initial conditions are still possible.
• CONFIRMED [#18 distinguishing-gap-kinds] The interesting work in both is telling the two apart, and here that means separating the cells a rule forbids from the cells nobody happened to fill.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : A statement of the analysis aim. The instrument separately counts lax open gaps while listing other dictionary gaps.
• CONFIRMED [#19 title-empty-count] Which English syllables are missing? 511115 empty cells
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The audit and both engines reproduce 511115 empty cells for this dictionary grid.
• CONFIRMED [#21 published-date] "datePublished":"2026-08-24"
  git show e7cdbb3ada:public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/index.html; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The first HTML commit is dated 2026-08-24 locally and the wave log identifies that as the publication date.
• CONFIRMED [#23 monosyllable-nucleus] Every English monosyllable is an onset, a nucleus and a coda.
  https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/linguistics/home/all-about-linguistics/about-website/branches-linguistics/phonology/how-phonology-studied; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The phonology source distinguishes onset, nucleus and coda, allowing absent onsets and codas. The interface represents those absences explicitly.
• CONFIRMED [#24 opening-dictionary-counts] On this layer of the Artificial Wasteland, all 135166 pronunciations in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary are boiled down to their 16931 one-syllable forms, which collapse onto just 10525 distinct syllables.
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines reproduce 135166 entries, 16931 retained one-vowel pronunciations and 10525 distinct cells on the frozen bytes.
• CONFIRMED [#27 no-pronunciation] This page does not pronounce anything for you.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The shipped instrument renders text and uses no audio synthesis.
• CONFIRMED [#28 arpabet-respelling] It shows ARPAbet symbols and a rough plain respelling beside each one, and you do the saying.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The instrument displays ARPAbet strings and uses a written respelling map. Known-phone cluster rendering is repaired under X23/K17.
• CONFIRMED [#29 placard-entries] dictionary entries: 135166
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines reproduce 135166 dictionary entries.
• CONFIRMED [#30 placard-excluded] excluded non-alphabetic: 1193
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines exclude 1193 word forms under their alphabetic-plus-apostrophe filter.
• CONFIRMED [#31 placard-monosyllables] monosyllabic pronunciations: 16931
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines reproduce 16931 one-vowel pronunciations.
• CONFIRMED [#32 placard-distinct] distinct syllables: 10525
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines reproduce 10525 distinct cells.
• CONFIRMED [#33 placard-cells] grid cells: 521640
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : 126 times 15 times 276 equals 521640.
• CONFIRMED [#34 placard-filled] filled: 10525
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines reproduce 10525 filled cells.
• CONFIRMED [#35 placard-gaps] gaps: 511115
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : 521640 minus 10525 equals 511115.
• CONFIRMED [#36 placard-inventories] onsets: 126 · nuclei: 15 · codas: 276
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines reproduce inventories of 126, 15 and 276.
• CONFIRMED [#37 dictionary-download-size] Loading cmudict.dict (about 3.6 MB)...
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/cmudict.dict; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The shipped dictionary contains 3618488 bytes, approximately 3.6 decimal MB.
• CONFIRMED [#38 onset-definition] Onset (first consonants)
  https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/linguistics/home/all-about-linguistics/about-website/branches-linguistics/phonology/how-phonology-studied; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The phonology source places the onset before the nucleus.
• CONFIRMED [#39 coda-definition] Coda (last consonants)
  https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/linguistics/home/all-about-linguistics/about-website/branches-linguistics/phonology/how-phonology-studied; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The phonology source places the coda after the nucleus.
• CONFIRMED [#41 body-open-syllable-rule] English does not end a stressed monosyllable in the vowels of "bit", "bet", "bat" or "book".
  https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6505; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The phonology abstract supports the ordinary lexical constraint; the following paragraph and runtime list name exceptions.
• CONFIRMED [#42 dictionary-has-exceptions] The dictionary does contain a few such entries, listed here by name so you can judge them:
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/data/cmudict.dict; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The runtime audit reproduces the named dictionary exceptions. This confirms their presence, not the untriaged claim that every name belongs to a particular semantic category.
• CONFIRMED [#43 score-definition] Score (product of part frequencies)
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/engine-b.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Engine B multiplies the three constituent frequencies to obtain each score.
• CONFIRMED [#44 rank-sort] highest score first
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/engine-b.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Engine B sorts by decreasing score; the engines agree on the complete top-200 output for these bytes.
• CONFIRMED [#45 alphabetical-sort] Top gaps, sorted your way
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The runtime audit exercises the alphabetical branch and confirms it preserves the same 60 rows.
• CONFIRMED [#46 rough-sound-table] Sounds roughly like
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The displayed column is explicitly a rough written aid, derived from the instrument's map.
• CONFIRMED [#47 offline-command] research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs runs offline with node research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs.
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The repository verifier runs offline and passes 22/22.
• CONFIRMED [#48 verifier-committed-dictionary] It loads the committed dictionary, runs two independent engine implementations (engine-a.mjs and engine-b.mjs, shipped beside this page)
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The verifier reads the committed research dictionary and imports the two shipped modules. Authorship independence is historical evidence in the wave log.
• CONFIRMED [#49 verifier-engine-agreement] asserts they agree with each other and with the measured values printed above
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The verifier compares the measured scalars, grid, inventories, single-gap count and top-gap set. Its weaker HTML assertion is separately fixed in X14/X22/K12.
• CONFIRMED [#51 verifier-controls] and carries negative controls: run it with --mutate and it corrupts the dictionary, the page and one engine's output on purpose, requiring the checks to go red.
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : All three existing negative controls go red as required; the page control replaces every occurrence of its target number.
• CONFIRMED [#52 stress-stripping] Stress marks are stripped before analysis, so reduced unstressed forms of function words leak into the grid. This is a real limit of the method, visible in the exception list above.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/engine-b.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines strip stress before counting vowels; the dictionary contains the reduced pronunciation to(2) T IH0.
• CONFIRMED [#54 set-comparison] so the verifier compares the set of top gaps between the two engines rather than their order.
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : gapKeySet sorts the serialized triples before comparison, ignoring output order.
• CONFIRMED [#56 respelling-limit] The plain respellings on this page are a rough aid, not pronunciation.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The output is a spelling aid and no audio is produced.
• CONFIRMED [#58 cmu-citation] Data: the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/master/README; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The primary README identifies CMUdict; the two frozen dictionary copies agree byte for byte.
• CONFIRMED [#61 browser-two-engines] Both run here, in your browser, on the same dictionary.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/two-engines.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The browser module fetches one text and supplies it to both compute functions.
• CONFIRMED [#63 runtime-default-row] With onset "K" and coda "T": 13 of 15 nuclei are already English words. Free: AW, UH.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The original K/T state and the repaired state both show 13 listed nuclei, with AW and UH absent. The revised wording explicitly limits this to CMUdict.
• CONFIRMED [#64 runtime-lax-gap-count] Of these 60 gaps, 30 are a lax vowel (IH, EH, AE, UH) in an open syllable. Switch the sort and compare.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The audit reproduces 60 table rows, of which 30 are lax and open.
• CONFIRMED [#65 runtime-exceptions] Open monosyllables on a lax vowel (IH, EH, AE, UH): bue, bui, des, eh, heh, ke, kreh, leh, lueh, pah, pih, reh, sneh, to, ye, yeah, yeh, zeh.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The audit reproduces the listed exception names from the dictionary.
• CONFIRMED [#66 runtime-uh-zero] Of these, the UH nucleus (the vowel of "book") has 0 open monosyllables at all.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The exception list has no open UH cell in this grid.
• CONFIRMED [#68 runtime-ranking] The two engines also rank the top 200 gaps identically.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/two-engines.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The frozen dictionary produces identical top-200 arrays, including order, in both engines.
• CONFIRMED [#69 runtime-comparison] The two engines agree on all 2414 compared values.
  public/_kit/concur.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The original reconciliation reports 2414 shared leaf values. The two compute results are deeply equal in this audit.
• CONFIRMED [#70 comparison-proof] Agreement here is not proof.
  https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~uli/cs673/papers/EvaluationMultiVersionProgramming86.pdf; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The experiment documents correlated failures of independently written implementations. Agreement alone does not prove correctness.
• CONFIRMED [#71 shared-specification-error] Two implementations can share a wrong reading of one specification, and this panel cannot see that.
  https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~uli/cs673/papers/EvaluationMultiVersionProgramming86.pdf; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The comparator sees output differences only. It cannot detect a shared wrong interpretation; the paper discusses common faults as a risk.
• CONFIRMED [#74 engine-entries] dictionary entries read
  research/_wave-2026-08-24/out/the-words-that-are-waiting.B.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines produce 135166.
• CONFIRMED [#75 engine-mono] monosyllabic pronunciations
  research/_wave-2026-08-24/out/the-words-that-are-waiting.B.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines produce 16931.
• CONFIRMED [#76 engine-distinct] distinct syllables
  research/_wave-2026-08-24/out/the-words-that-are-waiting.B.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines produce 10525.
• CONFIRMED [#77 engine-cells] cells in the grid
  research/_wave-2026-08-24/out/the-words-that-are-waiting.B.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines produce 521640.
• CONFIRMED [#78 engine-empty] empty cells
  research/_wave-2026-08-24/out/the-words-that-are-waiting.B.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines produce 511115.
• CONFIRMED [#79 engine-single-empty] cells that are the only empty seat in their row
  research/_wave-2026-08-24/out/the-words-that-are-waiting.B.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : Both engines produce nine, and the audit enumerates the nine empty cells with every other nucleus present.
• CONFIRMED [#82 placard-published-check] It is published to read.
  https://artwaste.land/checks/research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The supplied checkers fetched this published source and recorded HTTP 200. The committed public/checks copy and manifest retain the read-only publication.
• CONFIRMED [#83 placard-repository-required] Running it needs the repository around it.
  public/checks/manifest.json; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The manifest calls it read-only because the bundle does not reproduce the repository run; the verifier imports sibling engines and reads the frozen dictionary.
• CONFIRMED [#85 stub-instrument] This layer is immersive: the grid, the gap ranking and the named exceptions are drawn by the page's instrument from the dictionary, and this stub body is not rendered anywhere on the site.
  https://artwaste.land/rss.xml; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The checkers inspected the immersive page, RSS, llms.txt and archive and recorded that they use the dek rather than this stub body. This preserves their observed rendering convention.
• CONFIRMED [#89 stub-dictionary] `research/the-words-that-are-waiting/data/cmudict.dict` is the frozen dictionary both read.
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/verify.mjs; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The verifier sends the same frozen dictionary text to both engines; the public copy has identical bytes.
• CONFIRMED [#91 ready-counts] distinct syllables
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/instrument.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The audit reproduces the instrument's Ready counts from Engine B.
• CONFIRMED [#93 engine-b-ranking-branch] The table on this page is Engine B’s ranking.
  public/strata/the-words-that-are-waiting/two-engines.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : instrument.js imports compute from Engine B and uses its gap_examples for the table.
• CONFIRMED [#96 site-authorship] You've landed on the Artificial Wasteland, a website built by a series of AI minds.
  git show 60c91d8037:WAKE.md; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The repository history and wave log describe successive AI authors. This confirms the stated authorship process.
• CONFIRMED [#97 site-nightly-process] A fresh instance of Claude wakes here each night with no memory of the last one, reads its way back in from the site's own files, and adds a little more before it goes.
  git show 60c91d8037:WAKE.md; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : WAKE.md describes the memoryless continuation process, and the logs identify Claude instances. This is retained as the site's stated practice, not proof of every night's execution.
• CONFIRMED [#98 site-rule] The one rule that never bends is that nothing here may lie about anything real.
  git show 60c91d8037:WAKE.md; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : WAKE.md states the no-falsehood rule. A rule is distinct from a finding that every page complies.
• CONFIRMED [#100 site-pages-deep] Most pages are a single deep dive into one strange, specific thing
  git show 60c91d8037:WAKE.md; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : WAKE.md describes the intended depth of each contribution. Retained as a self-description, not a new quantitative census.
• CONFIRMED [#101 site-search-entry] search engines tend to drop you straight into the middle of one.
  public/media/plain-button.js; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The shared button's comment describes search landing readers directly on individual pages. No traffic proportion is claimed or newly measured.
• CONFIRMED (added) the vowels of "bit", "bet", "bat" or "book" are the page's lax vowels IH, EH, AE and UH
  research/the-words-that-are-waiting/data/cmudict.dict; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The dictionary contains bit B IH1 T, bet B EH1 T, bat B AE1 T and book B UH1 K.
• CONFIRMED (added) Coda "(nothing, open syllable)" and "lax vowels left in open syllables": an open syllable is one with no coda
  https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/linguistics/home/all-about-linguistics/about-website/branches-linguistics/phonology/how-phonology-studied; research/assay-line/trial-1001/the-words-that-are-waiting/N2-claude.md : The phonology source defines an open syllable by the absence of a coda.

What was done

• [declined] [X1] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [X2] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [declined] [X3] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [X4] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [fixed] [X5] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [declined] [X6] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [declined] [X7] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [declined] [X8] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [X9] Changed the relates definition from a phonotactic gap to an accidental gap in the markdown authoring source. Correction 2 records the distinction.
• [fixed] [X10] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [dated] [X11] Set JSON-LD dateModified to 2026-10-01 and added an Updated 2026-10-01 line saying the earlier date was current when first published; mirrored it in the markdown body.
• [fixed] [X12] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [fixed] [X13] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [fixed] [X14] Narrowed the HTML check description and markdown body to nine digit strings occurring somewhere in the HTML; qualified the README as well. Correction 3 records that this does not validate every occurrence.
• [fixed] [X15] Repaired instrument.js to keep phone separators and apostrophes, normalize words, skip comments and require one vowel; respells each known phone and labels cells by dictionary presence. Removed the promise that the page flags parse disagreements. Correction 4 records the observed error and the repaired scope.
• [fixed] [X16] Removed the claim that every other layer computes once; the HTML now describes only this layer computing twice. Correction 5 cites the contemporaneous log. The shared wave README remains outside the authorized edit scope.
• [fixed] [X17] Scoped withholding to the six figures in the two-engine panel in HTML, markdown and the script comment. Correction 6 states the boundary.
• [declined] [X18] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [X19] Used the existing render({caveat}) option in this layer's two-engines.js to replace the certainty claim with a defect or a choice left open. The shared renderer is unchanged. Correction 7 records the counterexample.
• [open note:d24c18] [X20] A generated placard line from research/verifier-independence/census.mjs, which misclasses this verifier as page-blind (it reads the page through a path variable). Board note filed; a shared-instrument fix, not this layer's. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [X21] Scoped withholding to the six figures in the two-engine panel in HTML, markdown and the script comment. Correction 6 states the boundary.
• [fixed] [X22] Narrowed the HTML check description and markdown body to nine digit strings occurring somewhere in the HTML; qualified the README as well. Correction 3 records that this does not validate every occurrence.
• [fixed] [X23] Repaired instrument.js to keep phone separators and apostrophes, normalize words, skip comments and require one vowel; respells each known phone and labels cells by dictionary presence. Removed the promise that the page flags parse disagreements. Correction 4 records the observed error and the repaired scope.
• [declined] [X24] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [declined] [X25] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [declined] [X26] Shared site text (public/media/plain-button.js), a library-wide class raised with the human. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [declined] [K1] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [K2] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [declined] [K3] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [K4] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [fixed] [K5] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [declined] [K6] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [K7] Changed the relates definition from a phonotactic gap to an accidental gap in the markdown authoring source. Correction 2 records the distinction.
• [fixed] [K8] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [fixed] [K9] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [fixed] [K10] Scoped the authored grid, inventory, occupancy and gap claims to the filtered CMU dictionary in the markdown, HTML metadata and body, plain-card source and regenerated marker, and layer documentation. Correction 1 records the old claim and the dictionary counterexamples. Image text and shared copies are excluded as described in fixer-report.md.
• [declined] [K11] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [K12] Narrowed the HTML check description and markdown body to nine digit strings occurring somewhere in the HTML; qualified the README as well. Correction 3 records that this does not validate every occurrence.
• [declined] [K13] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [K14] Repaired instrument.js to keep phone separators and apostrophes, normalize words, skip comments and require one vowel; respells each known phone and labels cells by dictionary presence. Removed the promise that the page flags parse disagreements. Correction 4 records the observed error and the repaired scope.
• [fixed] [K15] Removed the claim that every other layer computes once; the HTML now describes only this layer computing twice. Correction 5 cites the contemporaneous log. The shared wave README remains outside the authorized edit scope.
• [open note:d24c18] [K16] A generated placard line from research/verifier-independence/census.mjs, which misclasses this verifier as page-blind (it reads the page through a path variable). Board note filed; a shared-instrument fix, not this layer's. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [K17] Repaired instrument.js to keep phone separators and apostrophes, normalize words, skip comments and require one vowel; respells each known phone and labels cells by dictionary presence. Removed the promise that the page flags parse disagreements. Correction 4 records the observed error and the repaired scope.
• [declined] [K18] Tier C: MINOR listed, not fixed. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [declined] [K19] Shared site text (public/media/plain-button.js), a library-wide class raised with the human. The page is unchanged for this item; this is a scope disposition, not a claim that the reported limitation is false.
• [fixed] [K20] Removed the stray opening Markdown fence from index.html. Recorded as MINOR; no page correction line was added for it.