Mes ami,
It's my understanding that "bis" literally means "encore" -
as in an additional musical performance - and that it has come
to indicate alternate versions, routes, type specifiers,
detours and so forth.
As Randy mentions, you often see it with house numbers, but
you also see it on things like road maps/signage, catalogue
part numbers, directions, and telecommunications protocol
specifications (arg!) - i.e. any place where there is an
alternative version of something.
Au revoir - au revoir,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> =0ADon Wilson asked what "bis" means. It's used in France
> for addresses th
> e same way "1/2" is used in the u.s. Here, if you make the
> house at 123 Ma
> in Street into two apartments, one has the original house
> number and the ot
> her becomes 123-and-a-half. I can only assume that the
> drilled Stronglight
> models such as 105bis are then the equivalent of calling
> them model number
> 105.5. ~randy dugan, van nuys, ca, usa, where i still can't
> figure out wh
> y yahoo screws up my mail to CR.=0A=0A
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