diff --git a/Data/String/Combinators.hs b/Data/String/Combinators.hs
--- a/Data/String/Combinators.hs
+++ b/Data/String/Combinators.hs
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
      -- * Wrapping in delimiters
     , between
 
-    , paren
-    , thenParen
+    , parens
+    , thenParens
     , brackets
     , braces
     , angleBrackets
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@
 
 
 -- | Wrap a string-like in @(...)@.
-paren ∷ (Monoid s, IsString s) ⇒ s → s
-paren = between "(" ")"
+parens ∷ (Monoid s, IsString s) ⇒ s → s
+parens = between "(" ")"
 
 -- | Wrap a string-like in @[...]@.
 brackets ∷ (Monoid s, IsString s) ⇒ s → s
@@ -187,11 +187,11 @@
 
 This function is supposed to be used infix as in:
 
-@(precedence >= 10) \`thenParen\` (\"fun\" \<+\> \"arg\")@
+@(precedence >= 10) \`thenParens\` (\"fun\" \<+\> \"arg\")@
 -}
-thenParen ∷ (Monoid s, IsString s) ⇒ Bool → s → s
-thenParen True  = paren
-thenParen False = id
+thenParens ∷ (Monoid s, IsString s) ⇒ Bool → s → s
+thenParens True  = parens
+thenParens False = id
 
 
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diff --git a/string-combinators.cabal b/string-combinators.cabal
--- a/string-combinators.cabal
+++ b/string-combinators.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:          string-combinators
-Version:       0.5
-Synopsis:      Polymorphic functions to build and combine string-like values
+Version:       0.6
+Synopsis:      Polymorphic functions to build and combine stringlike values
 Description:   @string-combinators@ provides handy polymorphic functions
                to build and combine string-like values.
                .
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   Location: http://code.haskell.org/~basvandijk/code/string-combinators/
 
 Library
-  Build-Depends: base                 >= 4     && < 4.3
+  Build-Depends: base                 >= 4     && < 4.4
                , base-unicode-symbols >= 0.1.1 && < 0.3
   Exposed-modules: Data.String.Combinators
   Ghc-options: -Wall