1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/indexinglanguage/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/indexinglanguage/expressions/NGramExpression.java b/indexinglanguage/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/indexinglanguage/expressions/NGramExpression.java
index fdfadf65400..26058eeb8f3 100644
--- a/indexinglanguage/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/indexinglanguage/expressions/NGramExpression.java
+++ b/indexinglanguage/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/indexinglanguage/expressions/NGramExpression.java
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ import com.yahoo.vespa.indexinglanguage.linguistics.LinguisticsAnnotator;
 
 import java.util.Iterator;
 
-import static com.yahoo.language.LinguisticsCase.toLowerCase;
-
 /**
  * A filter which splits incoming text into n-grams.
  *
@@ -70,9 +68,8 @@ public final class NGramExpression extends Expression {
 
             // annotate gram as a word term
             String gramString = gram.extractFrom(output.getString());
-            typedSpan(gram.getStart(),
-                      gram.getCodePointCount(),
-                      TokenType.ALPHABETIC, spanList).annotate(LinguisticsAnnotator.termAnnotation(toLowerCase(gramString), gramString));
+            typedSpan(gram.getStart(), gram.getCodePointCount(), TokenType.ALPHABETIC, spanList).
+                    annotate(LinguisticsAnnotator.lowerCaseTermAnnotation(gramString, gramString));
 
             lastPosition = gram.getStart() + gram.getCodePointCount();
         }