First Couple-Three Pages: 6/11 - ATDTDA (11): 296 - 326 --The Deep Read:

[grladams at teleport.com]

By the way old Cajuns say "three or two" instead of "two or three" and yes,
I have heard "couple three" all my life and use it still. 
-Jill

Original Message:
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From: Ray Easton kraimie at kraimie.net
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:30:19 -0500
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: First Couple-Three Pages: 6/11 - ATDTDA (11): 296 - 326 --The
Deep Read:



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


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