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Where does the advice come from?

Each entry names its source and authority tier. A linked linter check may cover only part of a convention; read its example and the entry’s qualifications for the limits.

The ascending bars ahead of each entry's tier label are its standing drawn as a ladder: four steps for the four source tiers, filled up to the tier the entry's sources establish. Climbing it is evidence, never an edit: an entry rises only when a higher-tier source confirming it joins its citations.

LyricLint advisory: LyricLint's own preference, on a convention no Genius source states: the blank line between song parts, the text-hygiene checks. It shares the bottom step with community guidance, because our preference claims no more standing than unreviewed community writing.
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What about spelling and grammar?

The workbench also uses Harper for English spelling, grammar, and style suggestions. Those suggestions come from the proofreader, so they are not listed here as Genius conventions. Read them in the context of the lyrics before applying a change.

A header outside Norwegian conventions

Suggestion section.localized-header-preference Automatic fix

The reviewed Norwegian header for this song part is “Bro”. LyricLint recognizes “Bridge” as an alternate name and suggests the catalog spelling.

Conventions: Check a language's headers before editing, Headers speak the transcription's language, Match Norwegian Chorus to Pre/Post-Chorus, Keep Pre-Chorus and Post-Chorus in English.

What this check detects

Norwegian header preferences. Use Chorus with Pre-Chorus or Post-Chorus sections, Refreng otherwise, and keep Pre-Chorus and Post-Chorus untranslated. Alternate names are curated by LyricLint; the replacement headers come from the Norwegian catalog. Matched without regard to case or diacritics; adjacent transpositions of Chorus and Bridge are caught too.

chorus becomes Refreng

Norwegian 'scribes only. Without Pre-Chorus or Post-Chorus sections.
omkved becomes Refreng, Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only. Use Chorus with Pre-Chorus or Post-Chorus sections; otherwise Refreng.
refreng becomes Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only. With Pre-Chorus or Post-Chorus sections.
prerefreng becomes Pre-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
pre-refreng becomes Pre-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
førrefreng becomes Pre-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
før-refreng becomes Pre-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
postrefreng becomes Post-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
post-refreng becomes Post-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
etter-refreng becomes Post-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
etterrefreng becomes Post-Chorus

Norwegian 'scribes only.
bridge becomes Bro

Norwegian 'scribes only.
avslutning becomes Outro

Norwegian 'scribes only.
apning becomes Intro

Norwegian 'scribes only.
interlude becomes Mellomspill

Norwegian 'scribes only.

Example

Flagged by this rule

[Bridge]
En natt

In the workbench this reads: Use the reviewed Norwegian header “Bro” instead of “Bridge”.

Accepted by this rule

[Bro]
En natt

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Use Bro. The fix is classified as safe, so pressing it applies the edit directly: one press, one undo step.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Sources

The sources cited by this check:

Song Headers in Different Languages verified 2026-08-12 Purpose of localized section-header guidance

Song Headers in Different Languages verified 2026-07-24 Reviewed Norwegian section-header vocabulary

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