diff --git a/concordancer/utils.py b/concordancer/utils.py
index 909ab04a..e69f02a3 100644
--- a/concordancer/utils.py
+++ b/concordancer/utils.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def allValues_match_token(values:list, tag:Union[str, int] , target: dict) -> bo
 
 
 def append_regex_anchors(x: str):
-    x = "(" + x + ")"
+    # x = "(" + x + ")"
     if not x.startswith('^'):
         x = '^' + x
     if not x.endswith('$'):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 960c1d05..f060b6a7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
       long_description = f.read().strip()
 
 setup(name='concordancer',
-      version='0.1.15',
+      version='0.1.16',
       description='Extract concordance lines from corpus with CQL',
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type='text/markdown',