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Re:The Rise of Whatever by bigstrat2003 on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:14PM (#44465768)
"a couple" always means two. "A few" always means three. That wiki is wrong.
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Re:The Rise of Whatever by projektfu on Friday July 04, 2025 @02:12PM (#44466696)
If someone says, there were a couple [of] people there, I would not expect there to have been two, specifically.
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Re:The Rise of Whatever by eesmith on Friday July 04, 2025 @04:00PM (#44467412)
Feel free to check some print dictionaries.

New Merriam-Webster dictionary, 1989, def. 4 "an indefinite small number" - https://archive.org/details/newmerriamwebste00spri/page/180/...

Pocket Oxford English dictionary, 2005, def. 3 "(informal) an indefinite small number" - https://archive.org/details/pocketoxfordengl0000unse_p5e4/pa...

The Random House college dictionary, 1975, def. 6, "a couple of, (Informal) a small number of, a few"

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