Round brackets (or parentheses)
Words which are enclosed in round brackets (which are technically known as parentheses) are an aside or explanation which can be omitted without affecting the gist what is being said. For example:
The temperature today is 68 °F (20 °C), but tomorrow will be cooler.
This is, of course, the general principle underlying the proposition (which we encountered at p. 90) that where the citation of a journal or a law report contains a date in round brackets, the date is an optional part of the citation.
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