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   Roger House to All   
   A language/grammer question, I THINK   
   24 Nov 20 03:04:16   
   
   From: 61rroger@gmail.com   
      
   My smartphone has a news feature.  I was briefly looking at a news story from   
   Breitbart news about some stuff that Fox news host Laura Ingraham said on her   
   show.  At one point, it says/shows, (for lack of a better way of saying it),   
   and this next little    
   bit is a direct quote from the news piece:  "[U]nless the legal situation   
   changes in a dramatic and unlikely manner, Joe Biden will be inaugurated on   
   January 20."  There more stuff before and after the part that I quoted, but my   
   question is only about    
   something in the quoted part.  Here's my question.  Why is the "U" in the word   
   unless in brackets and what is the point of putting it in the brackets?  The   
   "U" is in brackets in the printed news piece, I didn't do it only by myself.    
   Thanks everyone in    
   advance!   
      
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