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Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
What number value do you assign "couple" to? Adding to this, what do you associate "few" and "bunch" with? And if you can think of any other terms that relate, what do you associate them with?

We were discussing this on MSN. Zet said something hilarious but inappropriate.

I associate couple with 2, few with 3 and bunch with 5. :(

Sammi

Age 33
she/her
The States
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted November 8th, 2021
14,085 posts
18.3 Years
For ages, I didn't get the hint that couple equaled two, so at my old job, this was often happen...
Guy: I want a couple of breadsticks.
Me: How many?
Guy: Two... ¬¬

These days, though, I always associate couple with two.

After that, words like few and bunch don't really have set numbers for me. They're the words I say when I don't have a set number, haha. ^^;; I do see them as smaller numbers, probably not more than ten -- at that point I'd probably go into many.

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Mattysaurus

Take it slow, braaah

Age 27
Male
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, North America
Seen May 30th, 2022
Posted April 28th, 2020
1,327 posts
15.7 Years
Couple is two.
Few is three or so.
Bunch is five or above.
And several is seven.

I don't know why but that's how I see it.


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Cherrim

Age 34
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Toronto
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20.4 Years
Couple is two (because that's what the word literally means), a few is three, several is also three, and a bunch is nothing specific, for me.

Can't think of any others that have "definite" meanings for me.


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Holy Roman Empire
Seen February 23rd, 2016
Posted February 23rd, 2016
2,551 posts
13.7 Years
s]Few: 1-4
Several: 5-9
Pack: 10-19
Lots: 20-49
Horde: 50-99
Throng: 100-249
Swarm: 250-499
Zounds: 500-999
Legion: 1000+

Yes, I probably played a bit too much of Heroes of might and magic 3 :D[/s]
Seriously, since English is not my first language, I don't think in it. So I don't use such words a lot. In fact the most I ever used them was in that game, which makes a significant influence - as you can see above.