List as data item in record datasource

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I’m setting up a table view that will take as input a list of records of the format:

set nounRec to {recType:"noun", term:{"user", "users"}, related:{"atom"}, genus:"user"}

I’ve (tried) to set up a datasource for the table using this code:

set wordSource to make new data source at end of data sources with properties {name:"words"}
		-- Create each of the data columns, including the sort information
		--   for each column
		make new data column at end of data columns of wordSource with properties {name:"recType", sort order:ascending, sort type:alphabetical, sort case sensitivity:case sensitive}
		make new data column at end of data columns of wordSource with properties {name:"genus", sort order:ascending, sort type:alphabetical, sort case sensitivity:case sensitive}
		make new data column at end of data columns of wordSource with properties {name:"terms", sort order:ascending, sort type:alphabetical, sort case sensitivity:case sensitive}
		make new data column at end of data columns of wordSource with properties {name:"related", sort order:ascending, sort type:numerical, sort case sensitivity:case sensitive}

		-- Make this a sorted data source
		set sorted of wordSource to true

		-- Set the "name" data column as the sort column
		set sort column of wordSource to data column "recType" of wordSource

		-- Set the data source of the table view to the new data source
		set data source of theObject to wordSource

		-- Add the table data (using the new "append" command)
		append wordSource with wordList

By debuggin I’ve gotten as far as the “set data source” line when it kluges to a stop with a “NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError (10)” error.

The only thing I can think is that some of the record items are, themselves, lists and perhaps table view/datasource don’t know what to do with them?

Would that be the case? Or should I look elsewhere? I’m also wondering if an outline view would accept that sort of disparity between record items (some strings, some lists) without complaining?

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have you tried:

set wordSource to make new data source at end with properties {name:"words"}

works for me.

Edit: I realized strange results when using reserved words (such as name, active, word(s)) as names of datasources and column identifiers. So maybe that is the source for the error.
Also using upper case letters has not worked for me. I had used names like “targetReady” which resulted in no data showing. When I changed to all lower case however, it all worked fine.