@TJ Higgins, I took the following actions in this order:
1. "Copy Internal List to External"
2. saved it as Abbr1.txt
3. "Edit External List"
4. modified Abbr1.txt according to the stipulated format
5. saved it
6. opened the test file in Tahitian
7. tried to save the test file using method 2 in the Bible drop-down menu
8. Nothing happened! It didn't save. There were no error messages.