Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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jayles the threaper

Member Since

August 23, 2016

Total number of comments

2

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1

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The fact of the matter is is that

  • August 23, 2016, 7:58pm

I would call it "native speaker error"

Writing out percentages correctly

  • August 23, 2016, 7:57pm

It seems to me that the natural way to write figures as words would be the same way as we say them. So 65.25476% would be sixty-five point two five four seven six percent. If the decimals only go to two or three places then we might talk about hundredths or thousandths but rarely beyond that.