SoGrumpy@lemmy.mltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
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27 days agoWrong. A couple is two exactly. After the wedding: Oh look at the happy couple. There aren’t 3 or 4 people standing there, 2 people are standing there. A couple.
To couple train carriages together means to attach two carriages together. There are more carriages behind that one, but they were all individually coupled together.
Look in any English language dictionary. Show me an entry that states a couple is more than two
I‘ll wait.