From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 11:53:53 MDT
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:58:17PM -0400, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> understand and to accept. We, the U. S., have been the receipents of a
> declaration of war and had several thousand of our citizens killed in that
Idiolects differ, but I certainly wouldn't call 2,800 "several thousand". In
my idiolect "a few" is about 3-6 and "several" is 7 to some vaguer number
above which is "many", although "many" might also work for 7+. But "a few"
should definitely be at least three, and "several" more than that.
-xx- Damien X-)
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