I remember my 2nd-Grade teacher, Mrs Geenwold (PS 236, Brooklyn) telling me a couple was "2" and several was more than "2" but not too much more. Sound good to me then; today, too...besides, I never yet found Mrs Greenwold to be wrong in anything she ever told me...Well, she was wrong about Lois (the girl who sat in front of me), but that's another story. <g>

JB