diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 79917c69678..6d50fa1faef 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ deprecated.  Errors in the Inscript method were corrected.
 There's also a Cham greeting in "etc/HELLO".
 
 ---
-*** New input methods for Lakota language orthographies
+*** New input methods for Lakota language orthographies.
 Two orthographies are represented here, the Suggested Lakota Orthography
 and what is known as the White Hat Orthography.  Input methods lakota-slo-prefix,
 lakota-slo-postfix, and lakota-white-hat-postfix have been added.