Brit here. ‘Couple’ always means two, to me. Years ago I read ‘The Difference Engine’, a steampunk novel written by an American set in Victorian England. I tho

Brit here. ‘Couple’ always means two, to me. Years ago I read ‘The Difference Engine’, a steampunk novel written by an American set in Victorian England. I thought the dialogue etc seemed quite realistically English until one of the protagonists returns from a bar with ‘a pair of pints’. No Brit would ever use ‘pair’ like this although ‘couple’ would work, sort of.