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by strken 358 days ago
I would have thought a few meant 3 to 5, although I still agree that the number of people who could do it is small.
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"couple" and "few" are debatable, but thanks to Survivor we know definitively that "several" means seven.
Couple is not really debatable - it has a definition that includes 2. Not 2 or 3, or any more than 2. Just 2.
What if you have a couple of couples? I think if it’s a couple, meaning two, that a couple couples could be two of however many the original couple is for the first couple, and the third one might couple with both members of the original couple, so I could see three as being a couple to a certain reading, though paradoxically four seems like one too many unless they are two couples of either one or a couple of kinds.
The Meriam-webster dictionary definition number 4 for couple is an indefinite small number: few.

I remember being confused as a kid what the difference is between a couple and a few. Turns out sometimes there is no difference.