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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

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html>

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.