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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”?

“I am eating khla” (a tiger), instead of saying, “I am eating sla” (leaves).
Folk-Tales of the Khasis|K. U. Rafy
It deadens good conduct (sla), forcibly kills good reputation, banishes shame, and defiles the mind.
The Gtakaml|rya Sra
Then they went on to a grove at Kusinr, and he lay down on a couch spread between two Sla trees.
Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3)|Charles Eliot
The sla delok (a bitter leaf) serves in the place of our worm powders for children.
My Friends the Savages|Giovanni Battista Cerruti

Some chance remark of a less well-known writer, may clear up the obscurity and show that Sla was Dil-dr.
The Bbur-nma in English|Babur, Emperor of Hindustan