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shipper's export declaration.

QUIZZES

Set some time apart to test your bracket symbol knowledge, and see if you can keep your parentheses, squares, curlies, and angles all straight!

Question 1 of 7

Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

Ea & hreticorum repulit iniquitatem, & Nostros in nauim non iam vt hospites, sed vt magna ex parte Dominos, potentsq imposuit.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
De vno Deo & bonorum retributione docti sunt aliqua, sed qu se ipsi semper ita audiuisse & credidisse profiteantur.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Hinc sequitur nimirum, vt pruinosa sit, & tam ventosa, sed flatu non nisi fer 72 algido.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
The sick allers ez took care on among them, they sed, 's long uz enny on em hez got a thing left.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

Fecit dextera Di virtutem: non est mortuus, sed vixit; & nunc incolumis narrat opera Di.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various