Only if Gloria Mundi is passing through... (remember her?)

Oh Yes, and there was always Gloria Tuesdi as well. I did look it up in the Guardian's notes and queries page.
Quite amusing versions. The square brackets are a publishing thing.

Is she that girl that drives the unreliable ford panel van?

Yes. Sadly just ceased production in the UK. Usually seen with her chum Neil Desperandum.

They have been taken over by the press and usually puts words in the speaker's mouth so to speak. I used them to indicate the way it was printed but perhaps I should have used "inverted commas" or {squiggly brackets} which I have never found a use for apart from seeing them used by a mathematician.
According to Wiki, square brackets are mainly used to insert explanatory material or to mark where a passage was omitted from an original material by someone other than the original author, or to mark modifications in quotations.
I thought I might claim the explanatory material bit. Who knows.

Actually, to put on my pedants hat, "square brackets" is a tautology. [These] are just brackets. (These) are parentheses. {These} are braces, but they won't hold your trousers up.

Sorry - that should be "pedant's".

{squiggly brackets} which I have never found a use for apart from seeing them used by a mathematician Quite.

Yes Qwertyuiop is my limit. I did look up French accent key strokes in honour of Claude. But I have forgotten them.
And US spelling wants me to honor.

New son-in-law is an actuary and sailed through Pure Maths at Uni and he knows what an upside down A means.
In fact he can understand the things on a film where the genius expounds a theory on a blackboard ...et voila.
In fact there is probably an equation that defines how quickly eyes start to glaze over when a dimwit is faced with that sort of thing.

A bit like motormad explaining what a steering wheel is for to a baboon.
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Aaargh! McKean's law (or her equivalent) strikes.

Re: curly brackets - as well as maths, you'll need them if you ever program in C++ or Java.

"The upside-down A symbol is the universal quantifier from predicate logic". See what I mean.

or if you need a full-beard emoticon :{)}

or if you need a full-beard emoticon :{)}
Is that for Navel Gazing or even Naval!.

Right that is enuff edication for today.
Muphry's law says I have to visit the farmers wife and her market to glaze at some squiggly cucumbers.
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New one today - or is the appearance of Meatloaf in doubt? " LEGENDARY rock singer Meat Loaf if performing at The Racecourse Newbury tonight,"
http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2013/flower-...n-todays-agenda

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2013/man-arr...-bus-stop-crash


No excuse for bad grammar in a newspaper.

What's wrong with that?

You don't know?
Seems the English language is dying on it's feet.
I blame parents and schools.
Still it seems to most that it doesn't really matter. .................................................................like!

Too many 'in's.

That's before we get onto sat / sitting / were etc....

To narrow it down, in case you overlooked it the first time.

(TBH, I hadn't noticed the 'in's )

It seems!