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Please can someone just clarrify, to settle an argument

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mountainboo | 15:05 Sun 28th Oct 2007 | Body & Soul
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A couple = 2
A few = 3/4
Several = 5
Please, because mrmountainboo thinks a couple is 3 (duh), a few is 4 or 5 and several is more. Thanks
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I'd agree with you, a couple is definitely 2, but I think 3 is a few and anything over that is several.
yeah what would mrmountainboo know - he's a guy !

2 = couple
simple
lol
3 = a crowd?
two is definitely a couple, but the others are pretty much what you want them to be. For instance if only a few people in a football stadium were cheering, that might mean a couple of hundred, against the thousands who weren't. I think several does mean more than a few, though.
2 is defo a couple! Give him the example as ''ooh we met a nice couple on holiday'' !!!
A couple is definately 2. As for the rest, I think theyre more flexible. I normally say a few is 3/4/5. Anything over is several.
mmm, my ex always got mixed up too..he'd often say he'd had a couple of pints when clearly he meant several. :o)
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Cheers everybody x
A couple in hour house is anything over 1 as in couple of sweets/biscuits/ I`ll only be a couple of minutes" lol
As beejaybee says it doesn't always have to mean two exactly it can mean more than two.

The whole point of words like couple/few/Several is they are not specific.
A few and several can be the same number - they can show that the writer means not that many (a few), or more than expected or acceptable (several).

Both these examples could describe a period of five minutes:

A few minutes later lunch was on the table.

The phone rang for several minutes before anyone picked up.

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