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[Ray Easton]

On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007, at 10:21 US/Central, David Morris wrote:

> "First couple, three" is just another example of Pynchon's
> Californiesqe (Valley?) phrasings  's what it is.

As a child in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, I heard the phrase "a 
couple, three" all the time, employed by family a couple-three 
generations before me.   (I've not heard it since, until AtD.)

Ray