----- Message d'origine ----- De: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Full details on sigma are at > http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/dist/sigma.html . In short: > sigma followed by period is final if the period marks a sentence end, > but medial if it marks an abbreviation; in dialect writing where a > dialect drops a final vowel before a sigma, the sigma remains medial > (and an apostrophe may or may not be added); languages other than Greek > don't necessarily obey the rules. Many thanks. This makes sense and is clearer than TUS (and obviously longer). P. A.
