NoOp wrote:
Really?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101754511033.aspx
2007 Office Suites
Estimated Retail Price/Upgrade Price
Office Home and Student 2007 $149.95/NA
Office Standard 2007 $399.95/$239.95
Office Small Business 2007 $449.95/$279.95
Office Professional 2007 $499.95/$329.95
Office Ultimate 2007 $679.95/$539.95
And yes, I'm aware that you can buy for less, however these are the
"official" MS estimated retail prices.
Well, I would say that $449.95 would would be a “few” hundred dollars,
not “several” hundred dollars.
I could be wrong. Some dictionaries say that “several” means more than
“two” or “three”. But they also say it means more than “few”, which some
dictionaries say means “more than two”.
So yes, if in your idiolect “several” means about 5, then I freely admit
the statement was correct.
In my idiolect, in the domain of actual numbers, “few” usually means
“fivish” (actually probably a quantity more than a “couple” and less
than “seven”) while “several” usually means “sevenish” (possibly
somewhere between “six” and “ten” inclusive). I am quite aware that
there is no etymological connections between “few” and “five” or between
“several” and “seven” and have looked on the apparent agreement between
these forms as an interesting coincidence.
So what seemed to me to be a needless exageration of the cost of
Microsoft Office almost certainly wasn’t.
Jim Allan
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