>Steve Widmar writes:
>
>> ... or vice versa:     anyone  know of a vi port to win95?   (or something
>>  that will help me match up my curly braces, brackets & parentheseses
>>  (parenthesi?)?)
>
>Just to keep the world safe for proper modern Latin usage, parenthesis is the
>singular form and parentheses is the plural form of the noun.
>
>And to further increase the amount of useless information in the HP3000 world,
>both of terms for the modern English symbols, braces { } and brackets [ ], are
>derived from the Latin bracchium (pl. bracchia), meaning "arms."
>

I prefer the technical term of curley braces for {}.  It is much more
descriptive :>}

G


Gary Jackson
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