>Damien Hall writes: >As renditions of '.3%' or '0.3%', both 'point-three of a percent' and the bare >'point-three percent' sound fine to my Standard Southern British ear. ~~~~~~~~~ Thanks. I *think* we would usually say either: "three tenths of a percent" or "point three percent," so that "point three of a percent" sounds like a blend. A. Murie