Just to Clear Things Up

Words for small sets (when talking about razors, brushes, etc.).

So what term do we use to describe your brush collection?

(06-26-2012, 02:33 PM)xraygun Wrote: So what term do we use to describe your brush collection?

Just a few handfuls of several couples.

(06-26-2012, 02:33 PM)xraygun Wrote: So what term do we use to describe your brush collection?

I think the term would be " a LOT "

According to Wikipedia, "A collective name suggested for a group of badgers is a cete, but badger colonies are more often called clans."

heh, keep em' coming John!

Well, I'm content, that couldn't be clearer!

There is, I believe, a tribe that has a counting system just like this. It goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, lots. I quite like that.

We had a similar system in the lab for describing shorthand how much of a chemical we had extracted from a sample: bucket-loads, lorry-loads or truck-loads.

(06-26-2012, 11:00 PM)Persius Wrote: We had a similar system in the lab for describing shorthand how much of a chemical we had extracted from a sample: bucket-loads, lorry-loads or truck-loads.

That could be adapted for use when describing shaving lathers.

At least credit XKCD comic for their work on that.

(06-27-2012, 08:37 AM)Theido Wrote: At least credit XKCD comic for their work on that.

Sure. All credit to the comic.

So Several Handful is just Few Couple!

Ummmm........what?