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Hanuman_2000 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
per cent
Hello,
I was reading a English book, I got a sentence where somthing was written like "70 per cent of somthing". After sometime I was doing my math practice and found the word percent.
Now I want ot know that it is "per cent" or "percent".
I was reading a English book, I got a sentence where somthing was written like "70 per cent of somthing". After sometime I was doing my math practice and found the word percent.
Now I want ot know that it is "per cent" or "percent".
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Most dictionaries treat it as one word, but either way is OK. L. term=hundred ).
- Most dictionaries treat it as one word, but either way is OK.
- L.
- term=hundred ).
- Until early 20c.
- often treated as an abbreviation and punctuated accordingly.
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Most dictionaries treat it as one word, but either way is OK. From the Online Etymology Dictionary:
Percent: 1568, per cent, from Mod.L. per centum "by the hundred" (see http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hundred). Until early 20c. often treated as an abbreviation and punctuat
Percent: 1568, per cent, from Mod.L. per centum "by the hundred" (see http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hundred). Until early 20c. often treated as an abbreviation and punctuat
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