Merge pull request #174 from Freely-Given-org/Dev

Mid-December update

Author: RobH123

frontend/src/Layouts/Footer/Footer.tsx

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ function Footer() {
                     </a>
                 </span>
                 <span className={styles['buildNotes']}>
-                    (Site last built: 4 Dec 2025)
+                    (Site last built: 10 Dec 2025)
                 </span>
             </div>
         </div>

frontend/src/app/Discussion/Challenge/page.tsx

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ function Challenge() {
                             and type in a description of the problem so we can
                             investigate it. If it’s a typo or a simple
                             inconsistency, no need to make any justification for
-                            a fix. (Or if you're familiar with Git, go ahead and
+                            a fix. (Or if you’re familiar with Git, go ahead and
                             submit a merge request / PR.)
                         </p>
                         <p>

frontend/src/app/Discussion/Notes/page.tsx

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function Notes() {
                         <h2>Project stages</h2>
                         <p>
                             We are currently in ‘first-draft mode’. This means
-                            that we're trying to fill in all 31,102 Bible verses
+                            that we’re trying to fill in all 31,102 Bible verses
                             with text, so that we have a Bible that we can at
                             least start reading and find every reference.
                             However, drafting is only stage one of a
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ function Notes() {
                             In our <em>OET Readers’ Version</em> translation, we
                             now attempt to mark up where we change it from a
                             literal translation, e.g., if we change the ‘The
-                            wealthy man says’ to ‘Wealthy people say’ then we've
+                            wealthy man says’ to ‘Wealthy people say’ then we’ve
                             made a change in <em>number</em> (i.e., from
                             singular to plural) and we mark that. You can see
                             the kinds of things that we annotate on our{' '}

frontend/src/app/Discussion/StyleEssays/page.tsx

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ function StyleEssays() {
                                 NET
                             </Link>
                             ) have ‘a spirit’ with a footnote to explain their
-                            decision to the reader (although we're{' '}
+                            decision to the reader (although we’re{' '}
                             <Link href='https://netbible.com/faq/'>
                                 prohibited
                             </Link>{' '}
@@ -275,6 +275,12 @@ function StyleEssays() {
                             potential range of meaning for that specific Hebrew
                             or Greek word.
                         </p>
+                        <p>
+                            Some people might even have fun calling the{' '}
+                            <em>OET Readers’ Version</em> an{' '}
+                            <em>anti-literal</em> translation, but we’d take
+                            that as a compliment. 😀
+                        </p>
                         <h2 id='saying'>Saying—direct speech</h2>
                         <p>Coming…</p>
                         <h2 id='surpriseParticle'>Surprise particle</h2>

frontend/src/app/Discussion/WordEssays/page.tsx

@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ function WordEssays() {
                         <p>
                             So if your father told you, ‘Come into your room.’
                             where would he be standing when he said that? Well,
-                            obviously, he’s already in your room and you're
+                            obviously, he’s already in your room and you’re
                             somewhere outside the room. So if someone said, ‘Do
                             such-and-such when you come into your room.’ where
                             was that person speaking from? The speaker must

frontend/src/app/page.tsx

@@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ const Home: NextPage = () => {
                                 </li>
                             </ul>
                             <p id='progress'>
-                                Currently as of early-December 2025, we have a
+                                Currently as of mid-December 2025, we have a
                                 first draft of most of the sixty-six Bible
                                 ‘books’{' '}
                                 <small>
                                     excluding Leviticus, Numbers, half of
                                     Deuteronomy, Proverbs, Isaiah, and Jeremiah
                                 </small>
-                                . Now 81% of the Bible is drafted, which is
+                                . Now almost 82% of the Bible is drafted, which is
                                 plenty for you to get a good idea of the style
                                 that we’re aiming for, although some decisions
                                 (even some major ones) are still in flux (and