[whatwg] Editorial Bug: "Couple" of Appendicies

Stijn Peeters stijn.p at hccnet.nl
Thu Jul 12 07:20:32 PDT 2007


Smylers schreef:
> A very minor niggle with the 'Structure of this specification' section,
> which says:
>
>   There are also a couple of appendices, defining shims for WYSIWYG
>   editors, rendering rules for Web browsers, and listing areas that are
>   out of scope for this specification.
>
>     http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#structure
>
> That's 3 appendicies, which is more than a couple.
>
> Smylers
>   

—Idiom
14. a couple of, more than two, but not many, of; a small number of; a 
few: It will take a couple of days for the package to get there. Also, a 
couple.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/couple)

I assume this meaning of "a couple" is used here.

Regards,

Stijn Peeters



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