yesterday I learnt that apparently in English "a couple" is generally believed to mean two, exactly, which still feels weird to me, so let's do a poll

@noiob native English speaker... for me, it depends on context - "i grabbed a couple of biscuits" means two or three, maybe four if they're not very big - but "Jane and Elisha are a couple now" is always two

@noiob and of course "i'll be a couple of minutes" means "you might as well start that novel you've been meaning to get around to, i'll try and be there before you finish it" ;-)

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