1. An electronic system for the analysis of digitally encoded text, such text including sequential strings of characters separated by spaces, such system comprising buffer means for receiving and storing coded text, means for examining each successive character sequence of the text to determine word and punctuation portions thereof and identify each character sequence having a terminal period, abbreviation table means for storing a table of common abbreviations with an indication if an abbreviation is of a non-terminating type, look-up means for checking a character sequence having a terminal period against the abbreviation table and determining its type, and sentence boundary determining means in communication with the look-up means and operative on successive character sequences for determining whether a sentence boundary occurs at an occurrence of a terminal period and wherein a discrimination means identifies and diverts from the sentence boundary determining means said non-terminating abbreviations.