: Re: Is it OK to use a single parenthesis after each number in a list? Several times I've seen lists formatted like this: My parenthetical pet peeves: 1) Referring to a single parenthesis

Give me parentheses (I mean open and close - two) for numbers or letters on lists contained within sentences. This avoids the confusion I always feel with I see a single parenthesis within a sentence. I start looking for the other one.
It also looks like newspaper writing -- saving every letter you can. Inelegant.
However, in a list of items set out on separate lines each beginning with a number or letter, use periods, an enclosing parentheses, or a single parenthesis. No confusion there, whichever you use.

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