On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:43:34PM +0000, Davide Brini wrote: > From wikipedia: > > "Parentheses (singular, parenthesis) ??? also called simply brackets (UK), or > round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, or, colloquially, parens..."
Oh joy... another weird British thing I wasn't aware of. I'm American, and so I don't always know non-American terminology. In the US, we use: ( ) parentheses [ ] square brackets { } curly braces < > angle brackets Human languages suck.