> Ooops. I should substitute the word "brackets" with "braces". I always
> get those two mixed up.
Don't worry Danny, in "real English - ie as spoken in England!
- there is no distinction.
There are {curly brackets}, (round brackets) and [square brackets].
You also get <angle brackets> and <<chevrons>>
But braces are things to hold your trousers (or is that pants?) up...
A parenthesis is any kind of grammatical pause, including commas, dashes
etc.
This was one of the frustrations of writing my book. I was even
accused of being an illiterate by one reviewer who thought my 'ignorance'
sufficient reason for the publisher to pull the book! :-)
Britain and America - two lands divided by a common language.
Alan G.
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