ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I just used the word "quite" in a post and had one of those moments where a familiar thing suddenly seems unfamiliar. Have you ever experienced that?
I remember typing the word "comb" a few years ago and remembering that it referred to the toothed object for arranging hair, but the word just didn't look right.
Anyway, I just had that feeling about "quite" as used in the phrase "quite a few". What the heck does that actually mean? "Several few"? "Lots of few"? "More than a few few"? "Not a lot but not a few, somewhere in between"? It's a strange word with which we are all familiar, but I don't find it easy to define.
I remember typing the word "comb" a few years ago and remembering that it referred to the toothed object for arranging hair, but the word just didn't look right.
Anyway, I just had that feeling about "quite" as used in the phrase "quite a few". What the heck does that actually mean? "Several few"? "Lots of few"? "More than a few few"? "Not a lot but not a few, somewhere in between"? It's a strange word with which we are all familiar, but I don't find it easy to define.