cvs commit: www/en index.xsl

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 16 February 2004 06:38 am, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2004 14:25, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <20040215190329.GQ8821 at submonkey.net>
> >
> >             Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> writes:
> > : On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:42:48AM -0800, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > : > wilko       2004/02/15 10:42:48 PST
> > : >
> > : >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > : >
> > : >   Modified files:
> > : >     en                   index.xsl
> > : >   Log:
> > : >   A pair of floppies -> a couple of floppies.
> > : >
> > : >   A pair equals 2 and 2 floppies are not sufficient anymore.
> > :
> > : "A couple" is numerically equivalent to "a pair".
> >
> > A couple isn't quite the same as a pair.  A secondary meaning for a
> > couple is the same as a few.  "Give me a couple of those biscuits" is
> > likely to get you 3 biscuits as 2 in many parts of the US.
>
> Funny, I've lived just about everywhere in the US (except Texas) and "a
> couple" has always meant two.  "A few" would be 2 to 5, several would be 4
> or 5 to maybe a dozen, etc., all the way up to "buttload" which is rougly
> "more than a man can carry."
>
> 2 or more seems to be what we really want here.  A parenthetical "X
> floppies for i386 as of this writing" will help the reader to grasp the
> scale at some ill-specified point in time.

Actually, 3 floppies are used for i386 and 4 for pc98 right now.  If 
bsdlabel(8) on Alpha is ever fixed so that it makes bootable images again, 
then Alpha will use 3 floppies.

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