I'm looking for a casual way to say approximately in this dialog. Would there around be idiomatic?
How many close friends do you have?
I don't know... Seven.
Seven?
Yeah. There around.
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Sign up to join this communityI'm looking for a casual way to say approximately in this dialog. Would there around be idiomatic?
How many close friends do you have?
I don't know... Seven.
Seven?
Yeah. There around.
I suggest:
Yeah, about that.
perhaps spoken as 'bout tha'
Other suggestions from comments:
'thereabouts' or 'more or less' "give or take". "It sounds about right" or "roughly" as in "roughly seven"