From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 13:06:15 MDT
In a message dated 9/19/2002 12:57:04 PM Central Standard Time,
phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu writes: 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",
Curtis,
I happen to have the Oxford American Dictionary handy. It says
several is above two but not many. It also gives a few and several as
equivalent in meaning.
However when I wrote the sentence above I thought several was about
three.
Ron h.
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