Timeline for "Two couple ducks" vs. "Two pairs of ducks"?
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 21:05 | vote | accept | Virtuous Legend | ||
| Mar 3, 2016 at 18:16 | answer | added | J.R.♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 18:01 | comment | added | Nihilist_Frost | I often find "couple" awkward when referring to generic sorts of pairs. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 17:17 | comment | added | Adam | You probably are aware of this, but in both "two pairs of ducks" and "two duck couples", there are four ducks total. If you say "In the background there are two coupled ducks." then there are only two ducks, and coupled indicates that they are together. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 16:59 | history | asked | Virtuous Legend | CC BY-SA 3.0 |