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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:23:02 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>,
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 07:03:29PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:42:48AM -0800, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > wilko       2004/02/15 10:42:48 PST
> > 
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en                   index.xsl 
> >   Log:
> >   A pair of floppies -> a couple of floppies.
> >   
> >   A pair equals 2 and 2 floppies are not sufficient anymore.
> 
> "A couple" is numerically equivalent to "a pair".

A couple of means (to me, I'm not a native speaker) something 
like "a handful".

But that could be because the Dutch 'paar' (pair) can mean 2
(a married/engaged etc couple is called "een paar" for example) but
"een paar Euro" translates to a "a few Euros".

:-)

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org