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=== Sources === {{refbegin}} * {{cite book|title=Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language|chapter=Brackets|author1-first=Thomas Burns|author1-last=McArthur|author1-link=Tom McArthur (linguist)|author2-first=Roshan|author2-last=McArthur|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780192806376}} * {{cite book|title=Words: A User's Guide|author1-first=Graham|author1-last=Pointon|author2-first=Stewart|author2-last=Clark|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=9781317864295|chapter=Punctuation Guide}} * {{cite book|title=The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage|author1-first=Pam|author1-last=Peters|author1-link=Pam Peters|edition=2nd|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2007|isbn=9781139465212}} * {{cite encyclopaedia|encyclopaedia=A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences|volume=4|author1-first=Henry|author1-last=Watts|author1-link=Henry Watts (chemist)|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|year=1877|article=Notation}} * {{cite book|title=Learning the Bash Shell|author1-first=Cameron|author1-last=Newham|author2-first=Bill|author2-last=Rosenblatt|publisher=O'Reilly Media|year=1998|isbn=9781565923478}} * {{cite book|title=A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users|author1-first=Mark G.|author1-last=Sobell|author2-first=Peter|author2-last=Seebach|publisher=Prentice Hall Professional|year=2005|isbn=9780321629982}} * {{cite book|title=Discrete Mathematics|author1-first=Norman|author1-last=Biggs|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2002|isbn=9780198507178|chapter=Set notation}} * {{cite book|title=The Development of Modern Chemistry|series=Dover Books on Chemistry|author1-first=Aaron J.|author1-last=Ihde|publisher=Courier Corporation|year=1984|isbn=9780486642352}} * {{cite book|title=Technical Shop Mathematics|author1-first=Thomas|author1-last=Achatz|author2-first=John G.|author2-last=Anderson|editor1-first=Kathleen|editor1-last=McKenzie|publisher=Industrial Press|year=2005|isbn=9780831130862}} * {{cite book|title=Treatise on English Punctuation|author1-first=John|author1-last=Wilson|edition=2nd|publisher=Published by the author|location=Boston|year=1850}} * {{cite book|title=An Essay on Punctuation|author1-first=Joseph|author1-last=Robertson|author1-link=Joseph Robertson (priest)|publisher=J. Walter|location=London|year=1785}} * {{cite book|title=A Course of Mathematics|volume=1|edition=11th|author1-first=Charles|author1-last=Hutton|author1-link=Charles Hutton|editor1-first=Olinthus|editor1-last=Gregory|publisher=Longman, Rees|location=London|year=1836}} {{refend}} * {{cite book |author-link=John Lennard |last=Lennard |first=John |title=But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse |date=1991 |isbn=0198112475 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford}} * {{cite book |last1=Turnbull |first1=Arthur T. |last2=Baird |first2=Russell N. |title=The Graphics of Communication: Typography, Layout, Design |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |location=New York |date=1964}} States that what are depicted as brackets above are called braces and braces are called brackets. This was the terminology in US printing prior to computers.
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