A word the analyze tab doesn't recognize

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A Walker Scott

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Oct 23, 2025, 5:58:27 PM (12 days ago) Oct 23
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I'm trying to do analysis on a text, and everything is working well, until I get to this one word--kuzǝ. It's in the lexicon. But it won't show up in the analysis. That tab insists there is no such word. What's going on?

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David Rowe

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Oct 23, 2025, 6:19:23 PM (12 days ago) Oct 23
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The schwa in your word is U+01DD (LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED E). Is that the same character as your lexicon is using? Or might the lexicon be using U+0259 (LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA)?

If that doesn't address the problem, could you include more information about the lexicon entry?

Thanks,
David
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Mike Maxwell

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Oct 23, 2025, 6:48:51 PM (12 days ago) Oct 23
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FWIW:
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Ǝ ǝ (turned E or reversed E) is an additional letter of the Latin
alphabet used in African languages using the Pan-Nigerian alphabet. The
minuscule is based on a rotated e and the capital form majuscule Ǝ,
based on a reversed (mirrored) majuscule E.

It is not to be confused with U+2203 ∃ THERE EXISTS, the existential
quantifier used in logic, or with U+0259 ə LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
(uppercase Ə), which is used as a phonetic symbol and as a letter in
Latin-based orthographies, such as Azerbaijani and the General Alphabet
of Cameroon Languages.
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Re the "It [lower case] is not to be confused..." Yeah, right. The
glyph on the page the above quote comes from
(https://codepoints.net/U+01dd) and the lower case schwa
(https://codepoints.net/U+0259) are identical in the Noto Sans font, and
on Unicode's own web page
(https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=01DD and =0259
respectively).

Mike Maxwell

On 10/23/25 18:19, 'David Rowe' via FLEx list wrote:
> The schwa in your word is U+01DD (LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED E). Is that
> the same character as your lexicon is using? Or might the lexicon be
> using U+0259 (LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA)?
>
> If that doesn't address the problem, could you include more information
> about the lexicon entry?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On 2025-10-23 13:58, A Walker Scott wrote:
>> I'm trying to do analysis on a text, and everything is working well,
>> until I get to this one word--kuzǝ. It's in the lexicon. But it won't
>> show up in the analysis. That tab insists there is no such word.
>> What's going on?
>>
>> *A. Walker Scott, Author of No Road Among the Stars*
>> *Sample or purchase No Road Among the Stars*:https://
>> www.smashwords.com/books/view/872202
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A Walker Scott

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Oct 23, 2025, 7:50:09 PM (12 days ago) Oct 23
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Yeah, I solved the problem by copy-pasing the same character into all instances. I had different, visually identical character in the lexicon from the one in the text. Gah! 

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