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This is a regional thing. In the UK they're all brackets.

Brackets, square brackets, curly brackets.

Even if that's true (and it wasn't in my experience of the UK), no-one calls any character other than {} braces (even with extra qualifiers), right?

Considering the worldwide population of coders don't all share a common native language, no - we need to embrace fluidity in our vocabulary.

They are also called curly brackets, so I imagine the confusion comes from there, and from the fact that the words "braces" and "brackets" are relatively similar, making them easy to confuse, especially for non-natives.

Parentheses (()), braces({}), brackets([]), and chevrons(<>). I concur.

Or, in British English, brackets(()), curly brackets({}), square brackets ([]).

And I’ve heard both “angle brackets” and “pointy brackets” (<>)

Smooth, squiggly, hard, and pointy are my gotos

That would be fine if we could somehow magically change the English language so that this would universally match how people call these symbols around the world - but that's not likely to happen.

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