Dr_Honeycombm1_Dictionary

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Original entry

NOTE: This was my first attempt and it's rather rubbish, please see the revised entry

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: Only 1 instance of this article should exist, preventing the secondary effect. Additionally, all mentions of Artefact-XXXX are written in italics. Thing is kept in an undisclosed location within Site-17’s safe wing. Requests to perform tests or move it must be approved by a Researcher with level 4 clearance or higher.

Description: Thingamajig[sic] is an info-hazardous Dictionary. When writing about Lexicon, the writer will find that they cannot use any words more than once. However, when 2 separate drafts are presented simultaneously, accommodating two identical expressions, both become lethal cognitohazards.

+ Input Level 4 Credentials

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: The former article, available to all level 1 through 3 personal, exists to prevent personal from locating SCP-XXXX, and by extension, inadvertently activating SCP-XXXX's true primary effect. It is to be kept in a Standard reinforced locked box in site 17's Euclid wing. No person with credentials lower than level 4 are to know SCP-XXxX's true location.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an English Dictionary with 10 47 103 ███ Blank pages. Advanced mechanical screening techniques, using a special form of quantum locked digital storage, has revealed that whenever a sapient being uses SCP-XXXX, with the intent to check the meaning of a word, the word in question ceases to have ever existed. To clarify, all English speaking sapient beings claim that they had never heard of the word in question. Additionally, the word ceases to exist in all pieces of literature, replaced with a suitable synonym in all instances. SCP-XXXX was discovered on the desk of Dr Archimedes Carter, in his personal living quarters, during his stay at Site-██. It was identified, after 3 years of searching, to be the cause of a mass detection of grammatical errors all across the internet when the word █████ ceased to exist with no suitable synonym's. It is hypothesised that, due to the large quantity of blank pages, an unacceptable quantity of words have been 'lost'. Conversion of Foundation database to a different language is pending 05 approval.

Revised entry

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a standard locked box in Site-17's Euclid wing. Only level 4 Personal are authorised to have access to SCP-XXXX. No further testing is Authorised at this time.¹

Description: SCP-XXXX is an English Dictionary with 67 103 ███ Blank spaces. Advanced mechanical screening techniques, using a special form of quantum lockable digital storage, has revealed that whenever a sapient being uses SCP-XXXX, with the intent to check the meaning of a word, the word in question ceases to have ever existed. To clarify, all English speaking sapient beings claim that they had never heard of the word in question. Additionally, the word ceases to exist in all pieces of literature, replaced with a suitable synonym in all possible instances, with the exception of that words place in the object itself, which creates a blank space. SCP-XXXX was discovered on the desk of Dr Archimedes Carter, in his personal living quarters, during his stay at Site-██. It was identified, after 3 years of searching, to be the cause of a mass detection of grammatical errors all across the internet when the word █████ ceased to exist with no suitable synonym's. It is hypothesised that, due to the large quantity of blank pages, an unacceptable quantity of words have been 'lost'. Conversion of Foundation database to a different language is pending 05 approval.

+ View test log

Test 14 - Date: 04/11/20██

Subject: D-5833
Procedure: D-5833 was instructed to write the word '█████' on a provided piece of paper, then to search for the meaning of the word in SCP-XXXX. D-5833 was not informed of SCP-XXXX's anomalous effects.
Results: Post test digital analysis have revealed that at the exact instant that D-5833 revealed the page containing the word █████, it ceased to exist. The piece of paper originally containing the word, was replaced with the word 'Bitter', written in D-5833's handwritting. Further post test analysis has revealed that 'Bitter' was a suitable synonym for the original word.

+ Incident log XXXX-1

On 05/11/20██, After a round of testing, Junior Researcher ███ neglected to return SCP-XXXX to it's containment locker. 4 hours later Security officer █████ found the object. Assuming it was simply a dictionary, he threw it into site 17's D-class wing, claiming, "I thought those delinquents could learn a thing or two". SCP-XXXX was only recovered an additional 8 hours later when Junior Researcher ███ realised his mistake.

An estimated ███ words have been lost due to the presence of an additional ███ new blank spaces. Creation of a French backup of all foundation archives has been approved by a majority vote by the 05 council.

Junior Researcher ███ and Officer █████ have both been reprimanded.

Footnotes

1. See incident log XXXX-1