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Item #: SCP-005

Special Containment Procedures

Containment of SCP-005 is passive: the anomaly is bounded by its own hostname and does not propagate beyond https://aphoverb.bisks.net/ under any observed condition. As a Euclid-class object, personnel are advised that SCP-005's behavior is only partially predictable under repeat interaction; researchers should log anomalous outputs to the site's own Addendum before treating them as expected behavior.

Description

SCP-005, referred to by Foundation staff by its working name "aphoverb," classified as a recreational-hazard anomaly, is reachable at https://aphoverb.bisks.net/.

The clearest surviving account of the anomaly's function is its own front-page copy, reproduced below:

proverb or aphorism? a quiz on the difference, which turns out to be slipperier than it sounds.

Discovery Log

SCP-005 entered Foundation custody after being flagged by field asset @words.bsky.social, whose transmission initiated standard containment procedure. First logged 2026-07-31.

Addendum

Addendum 005-A: Euclid remains the Foundation's largest classification by volume. SCP-005 is unremarkable within that population and is not flagged for expedited review.

See also: SCP-154 (prosodle), SCP-011 (bathmat).