| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| parenthesis (n.) |
| (pronounced puhr-EN-thuh-sis) uses only its foreign plural, parentheses (pronounced puhr-EN-thuh-SEEZ), in English. It has two main meanings: “explanatory or additional material not necessary to the main sentence, an aside” and a mark of punctuation, used in pairs. See PARENTHESES. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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