25 May
2021
25 May
'21
7:02 a.m.
On 5/24/2021 11:27 PM, Will Martin wrote:
The term “a couple” is two. It doesn’t sound as precise as two, but it really is two.
/Couple/ means two, but if it turns out to be one or three, you weren't incorrect. /Pair/ and /brace/ (archaic) both mean exactly two.
“several” is three or four. Two is already covered by "a couple", and and five is covered by “a handful”.
In no way do I associate five with a /handful./ I've never heard anyone say that. To me, a /handful/ is even more vague than /several./
So, I read {puS} as “3-5”.
I read *puS* as/significantly smaller than average./ If I've got an army of a five thousand soldiers, and yours is only six hundred soldiers, your soldiers are *puS.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name