Brackets, parentheses
Posted by R. Berg on May 26, 2003
In Reply to: Brackets, parentheses, this forum and my screen posted by Henry on May 26, 2003
: : : Here I often see references to a "bracketed phrase" appear in parentheses on my screen. Is that my font settings or your software or do many people use the terms brackets and parentheses differently?
: : : Perhaps a test is indicated: brackets [], parentheses ().
: : A parenthetical element in a sentence is enclosed by parentheses. They may be commas, dashes or some variety of bracket. In mathematics, square brackets have been named parentheses to distinguish them from curved brackets.
: Now I've looked it up! This is from [Dead link removed - ed]
: "Here are some examples of brackets: ( ) - parentheses, [ ] -
brackets or square brackets, { } - braces or curly brackets, - angular
brackets. Normally, the word "brackets" means square brackets and
not parentheses."
: Living in England, I would understand "brackets" to be round ones.
In the U.S., ( ) are conventionally called parentheses. Brackets are [ ]. { } are braces or curly braces.
- Brackets go to the wall Lewis 06/02/03