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While doing a search for discussions of Abraham compared to Job I found an odd result in the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Job is identified with the backslash characters (\) which mark off the pronunciation guide. Not really a problem, just wondering if anyone has an idea why this is happening.

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DMB

Those slashes have 'footnotes' ... which include 'Job' (pronunciation of 'j', though I've never heard Job as job!).

In search distances, it includes footnote content, depending on your text selections.

Justin Gatlin

If you click "All Text," you can select all and then unselect footnotes to avoid this behavior, although it is not usually so inscrutable!

Lou Rosen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240914#Comment_1240914

DMB and Justin --Thanks to you both for your replies. I learned something today. This also explains why only some of the slashes are flagged and why the hits disappear when I turn on "match case".

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240914#Comment_1240914

If you click "All Text," you can select all and then unselect footnotes to avoid this behavior, although it is not usually so inscrutable!

You only need to select Surface Text!