From: Séamas Ó Brógáin (leabhair@iol.ie)
Date: Sun Mar 06 2005 - 03:31:37 CST
Asmus wrote:
> It's derived from per centum, with various stages of abbreviation
> ending finally with %.
Strictly speaking, from Italian _per cento_. The second word became
something like c/o, which eventually became the familiar %.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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