Talk:Parentheses

a revert war over a redirect! what will they think of next?
Nobody searching the term parentheses is searching for the singular term parenthesis. They want the article that defines. SchmuckyTheCat 15:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Who first started to revert? Parentheses is clearly the plural form of parenthesis. People may not be looking for the round brackets, but parenthesis (rhetoric). &mdash; Instantnood 20:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you speak this language? SchmuckyTheCat 02:05, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * What language are you talking about? &mdash; Instantnood 19:32, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * In what way is parentheses not a plural form of parenthesis, for the meaning the parenthesis (rhetoric) article talks about? &mdash; Instantnood 07:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Three things seem clear to be: (1) Parentheses is a plural of parenthesis (2) Parenthesis has two meanings both of which may be used as a pural (3) Parenthesis is a disambiguation page (for good reason as it has two meanings). Given this I can't see why we would want Parentheses to bypass one possible meaning when we are happy for the singular meaning to be a dismbiguation article. Parentheses should direct to the singular dismbiguation page. -- Mark S  (talk) 12:42, 5 June 2006 (UTC)