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From: jpd@pc.usl.edu (Dugal James P.)
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Subject: Re: What means "bis" and "ter"?
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Date: 21 Mar 91 22:29:49 GMT
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Bis and ter are French words meaning, respectively, second and third.
For example, a street address of 123bis Rue Maillot means two buildings
exist between numbers 121 and 125; one of them is the "second instance"
of address 123.

As for X. standards, bis and ter seem to indicate second and third
revisions of a standard.

Bis is pronounced like "beese".  Ter is pronounced like the first
syllable in terrible ;-)

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