I'm assuming I'm looking for anything that's sticking out below the bottom?

If I display the long normals, the ones on the "a" are a little bit shorter than the others and the ones on the "e" are...

**I'm wretchedly new to Maya so please forgive my n00bness**

I have 12 letters: "Clean Records" imported from Illustrator and extruded using Bevel Plus. Each is being affected by a single gravity...