#2132: Percentage Styles
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Percentage styles in order of acceptability
[A long vertical line is shown with five dots on it.]
[Label at the top:]
Best
[Dot labels from top to bottom:]
65%
[very short distance]
65 percent
[at roughly quarter scale]
65 per cent
[at roughly half scale]
Sixty-five%
[at the end]
65 per¢
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:In a tribute to classical Latin, I started pronouncing it 'per-kent.' Eventually my friends had to resort to spritzing me with a water bottle like a cat to train me out of it.