PC percent

[drchasuble]

I have noticed over recent months that most newspapers are using the letters pc (eg: 16pc of the population bla bla bla) instead of the internationally recognised % symbol. Would anyone be able to enlighten me as to why this has changed?

Many thanks

[ludwig]

Don't know, but can I be the first to say 'its' just pc gone mad' ?

[smudge]

Gawd knows - but it's so politically uncorrect!

[smudge]

Whoops - politically incorrect! ;o]

[drchasuble]

It just makes some headlines look pretty weird. I only clocked the pc/% thing on a day when they were talking about racism in the Met. It said something like 75pc hate ethnic minorities and I thought "only 75 PCs in the whole of the Met? I thought it would be a lot more."

Doh!

[smudge]

Yes - very lazy of them!

Wonder if the Editors teach their children to write it the correct way?!!!!

[Bob A Job]

Ive got a friend who writes the odd article for newspapers, mostley Movie reviews...
And he sends them to his editor via text message!! sometimes even before he's left the cinema, cheeky bu99er. i know that he uses certain shorthand because he's restricted on characters to use, maybe its something similar to that.

[johnizere]

correct me if I'm wrong, but it could be that US keyboards don't have a % key, and they use c. for per cent there. e.g. 50c. ?

[johnizere]

%%.....or maybe not!

[jno]

no, I think US keyboards have them in the same place as UK ones, over the 5. (they don't have �s but I think have a separate cent symbol)