Patterns matching common English date prefixes that frequently appear at the start of BLUF / lead sentences (On 7 May 2026, …, Friday 8 May 2026 marks …, The week of 2–9 May 2026 produced …).
Per seo-metadata-contract.md §2.1 ("Never contains a literal date"), the title must not echo the publication date — so when synthesising a title from a BLUF sentence we strip these prefixes first. If the remaining sentence starts with a lower-case word it is capitalised so the SERP title reads as a clean sentence.
The patterns cover well-formed date leads in English, Swedish, German, and French — the four primary content languages. Translated articles in other languages get their own per-language dictionaries via the news-translate workflow.
Patterns matching common English date prefixes that frequently appear at the start of BLUF / lead sentences (
On 7 May 2026, …,Friday 8 May 2026 marks …,The week of 2–9 May 2026 produced …).Per
seo-metadata-contract.md§2.1 ("Never contains a literal date"), the title must not echo the publication date — so when synthesising a title from a BLUF sentence we strip these prefixes first. If the remaining sentence starts with a lower-case word it is capitalised so the SERP title reads as a clean sentence.The patterns cover well-formed date leads in English, Swedish, German, and French — the four primary content languages. Translated articles in other languages get their own per-language dictionaries via the
news-translateworkflow.Exported only for testability.