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Handful is more than "several" to me, and several tops out around 10, hence 10-20 being a handful. Anything that's a word instead of a precise number implies a
by Daneel_ 1y ago
Handful is more than "several" to me, and several tops out around 10, hence 10-20 being a handful.
Anything that's a word instead of a precise number implies a range to me (eg, few, handful, several).
- onionisafruit 1y agoDespite coming across like I was trying to correct you, I only meant to give my personal understanding of “handful” I don’t know where I got my idea of handful, but it probably came from how high I can count using the fingers on one hand. So far that understanding seems to work for me when other people say it as long as I do what you said and treat it as an approximation. On the “several” topic, I used to think it meant “about seven” because of the shared “sev” prefix, but it didn’t take long to realize several has a much bigger range than that.