diff --git a/internal/check-hardcoded-english.mjs b/internal/check-hardcoded-english.mjs
index 4e358cbb8..c413be76c 100644
--- a/internal/check-hardcoded-english.mjs
+++ b/internal/check-hardcoded-english.mjs
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import { readFileSync, readdirSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
 import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
+import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
 import { parse } from '@vue/compiler-sfc'
 import * as babel from '@babel/parser'
 
@@ -91,6 +92,22 @@ function localizedNames(code) {
   for (const m of code.matchAll(/\bconst\s+([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*=\s*(t|tf)\b\s*(?![(.])/g)) names.add(m[1])
   return names
 }
+// ★ A DOM QUERY ARGUMENT IS A SELECTOR, NOT PROSE — and a selector made of custom-element tags
+// reads as English only because the tag names are English words. gospel found
+// `querySelector("gospel-resources-dashboard, gospel-resources-map")` reported as user-visible text:
+// the single-tag rule matched neither, because it is a comma-separated LIST. Exempting by CALL SITE
+// is the right shape (as with developer strings) — the site is the fact, and no content rule can
+// reliably tell a tag list from a sentence.
+const DOM_QUERY = new Set([
+  'querySelector', 'querySelectorAll', 'closest', 'matches', 'getElementById',
+  'getElementsByClassName', 'getElementsByTagName', 'getElementsByName',
+])
+function isDomQuerySite(parent) {
+  return !!parent && parent.type === 'CallExpression'
+    && parent.callee?.type === 'MemberExpression'
+    && DOM_QUERY.has(parent.callee.property?.name || '')
+}
+
 // A literal that is an argument to one of these never reaches a reader, whatever it says.
 function isDeveloperSite(parent) {
   if (!parent) return false
@@ -249,7 +266,7 @@ function scanScript(code, file, out) {
     // ★ DEVELOPER STRINGS ARE EXEMPT BY CALL SITE, NOT BY CONTENT (upg100). `throw new Error('…')`
     // and console.* never reach a reader, and judging them by their text means inventing a rule for
     // every sentence a developer might write. The SITE is the fact; the wording is not.
-    if (isDeveloperSite(parent)) return
+    if (isDeveloperSite(parent) || isDomQuerySite(parent)) return
     if (parent && /Import|Export/.test(parent.type)) return
     if (parent && parent.type === 'TaggedTemplateExpression') return
     if (guardedFallback(stack, names)) return
@@ -376,6 +393,8 @@ const PLANTED_BAD = `<template>
     <span>{{ ok ? 'Everything loaded' : 'Nothing loaded' }}</span>
     <p dir="ltr">Counted BY LANGUAGE, so groups collapse.</p>
     <div dir="ltr"><em>Source: eBible, checked 2026-09</em></div>
+    <p><bdi dir="ltr">Of {{ tally.langs }} sign languages on this map, covering {{ tally.people }} people,
+      {{ tally.both }} have both a film and a text Scripture.</bdi></p>
   </div>
 </template>
 <script setup>
@@ -408,6 +427,8 @@ const proxyMiss = t.search || 'Search names, country, religion…'
 const keyMiss = msg !== 'messages.engineMissing' ? msg : 'The map engine did not load.'
 const devThrow = () => { throw new Error('table not found for this request') }
 const devWarn = () => console.warn('boundaries failed to load for this map')
+const host = document.querySelector('gospel-resources-dashboard, gospel-resources-map')
+const one = el.closest('regions-dashboard, doxa-simple-map')
 </script>`
 
 const XAREA_BAD = `const t = useOptionalT('regions')
@@ -446,6 +467,13 @@ function selfTest() {
   const ltr = bad.filter((f) => f.deliberate)
   ok(ltr.some((f) => /Counted BY LANGUAGE/.test(f.text)), 'marks text inside dir="ltr" as DELIBERATE, not a leak')
   ok(ltr.some((f) => /Source: eBible/.test(f.text)), 'and INHERITS the marker down the subtree')
+  // ★ gospel's real case: an island SPLIT BY INTERPOLATIONS. Each run between two {{ }} is its own
+  // text node, so a check that only marked a whole-text island reported the pieces as separate
+  // leaks — and they nearly got translated. <bdi dir="ltr"> is the element they actually use.
+  const splitIsland = bad.filter((f) => /sign languages on this map|both a film/.test(f.text))
+  ok(splitIsland.length > 0, 'sees the pieces of an interpolation-split island at all')
+  ok(splitIsland.every((f) => f.deliberate),
+    `every piece of an interpolation-split dir="ltr" island is DELIBERATE (got ${splitIsland.filter((f) => !f.deliberate).length} not marked)`)
   ok(bad.filter((f) => !f.deliberate).some((f) => f.text === 'Prayer Coverage'), 'while a leak OUTSIDE the island is still counted')
   ok(!good.some((f) => f.text === 'All Regions'), 'QUIET on a call through an ALIAS of t()')
   ok(!good.some((f) => f.text === 'Regions List'), 'QUIET on a te()-guarded fallback')
@@ -455,6 +483,8 @@ function selfTest() {
   ok(!good.some((f) => /map engine did not load/.test(f.text)), 'QUIET on the "did t() return the key?" miss idiom (msg !== \'a.dotted.key\')')
   ok(!good.some((f) => /table not found/.test(f.text)), 'QUIET on a throw new Error(…) argument — exempt by CALL SITE')
   ok(!good.some((f) => /boundaries failed/.test(f.text)), 'QUIET on a console.warn(…) argument')
+  ok(!good.some((f) => /gospel-resources-dashboard|regions-dashboard, doxa/.test(f.text)),
+    'QUIET on a DOM query selector, including a comma-separated list of custom-element tags')
   ok(!good.some((f) => /rd-card|example\.test|nu-latn|HTTP/.test(f.text)), 'QUIET on css, urls, locale extensions and developer error text')
   ok(good.length === 0, `QUIET overall on a correct file (got ${good.length}${good.length ? ': ' + JSON.stringify(good[0]) : ''})`)
   // The blind spot is PINNED, not merely mentioned: if single-word detection is ever added, this
@@ -473,6 +503,15 @@ function selfTest() {
   return fails
 }
 
+// Short HEAD sha plus a dirty marker, or 'unknown' outside a checkout.
+function treeStamp() {
+  try {
+    const sha = execSync('git rev-parse --short HEAD', { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] }).toString().trim()
+    const dirty = execSync('git status --porcelain', { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] }).toString().trim()
+    return dirty ? `${sha}+dirty(${dirty.split('\n').length} file(s))` : sha
+  } catch { return 'unknown (not a git checkout)' }
+}
+
 // ── main ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 // RUN ONLY WHEN INVOKED DIRECTLY. Without this guard, `import`ing the module to reuse scanSfc() runs
 // the whole production scan as a side effect — which is how I first "verified" it against sr's real
@@ -497,7 +536,12 @@ try {
 
 const deliberate = findings.filter((f) => f.deliberate)
 const leaks = findings.filter((f) => !f.deliberate)
-console.log(`\n  ${dirs.length} production plugin(s), ${files} SFC(s) scanned`)
+// ★ THE RUN NAMES ITS OWN SHA. Three reports today were true of an older artifact than the one in
+// hand, and each cost someone a wasted investigation — the last one nearly had a working island
+// check "fixed". gospel's corollary is that the reader cannot check what the writer did not say, so
+// the tool says it: any number quoted from this output carries the tree it was measured on, and a
+// dirty tree is marked because then the sha alone does not describe what ran.
+console.log(`\n  ${dirs.length} production plugin(s), ${files} SFC(s) scanned  ·  tree ${treeStamp()}`)
 for (const f of leaks) console.log(`   ${f.kind.padEnd(16)} ${f.file.replace(/^.*plugin-designs\//, '')}  ${JSON.stringify(f.text).slice(0, 90)}`)
 if (deliberate.length) {
   // Listed so nobody wonders where they went, but NOT counted: dir="ltr" is the plugin's own marker