If I put "100% correct pronunciation" in the following sentence, is it understandable and correct? "100%" is what I would like to emphasize. If it is not right, how should it be expressed?
"It is the 100% correct pronunciation of mischievous you just heard in the video."
PS. I looked it up in the Google Ngram Viewer. But, it turned out nothing.
Best Answer
Some English speakers feel that '100 per cent' is overused as an expression, especially in connection with things that cannot be measured. For example, you couldn't say a pronunciation was '87% correct' - how could that even be measured? But in colloquial speech, '100%' is often used to mean 'completely', and '99%' (or sometimes '99.99%') to mean 'almost'.
Your example sentence is okay. It captures everyday speech quite well. Although it might be less open to criticism if it was phrased like this: