When a final sigma has a medial form (Re: German 0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E)

From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 20:56:19 EST

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    De: "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>

    > 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.

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