cljohnson
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10 years ago Hi!
Anything called Two Scoops .... implies a more informal writing style and my own read of Two Scoops thus far bears that out. I read the below email and actually had no issue that the "of" was left out of "However, there are a couple of use cases worth mentioning." To confirm, I Googled it. See selected result below.
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Charles L Johnson
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I [not me] recently e-mailed Merriam-Webster's Language Research Service the following question. Associate Editor, Neil S. Serven, replied as follows.
Q: Is it grammatically incorrect to say "a couple hours" instead of "a couple of hours"?
A: Both expressions are standard, though “a couple hours” is considered to be more informal. As such, couple is entered in the dictionary as both a noun and an adjective. The excerpt below from Merriam-Webster’s Concise Dictionary of English Usage discusses the use of couple as an adjective.
couple, adjective. While the commentators were worrying whether the noun couple could be used to mean simply "two" and whether it could mean "a few" (see COUPLE, noun), the word itself was following the path of development that dozen had taken centuries earlier—dropping its following of and being used like an adjective. We are not sure when this process began in speech, but we begin to find written evidence in the 1920s. Sinclair Lewis heard it in the dictation of George W. Babbitt:
... all my experience indicates he is all right, means to do business, looked into his financial record which is fine--that sentence seems to be a little balled up, Miss McGoun; make a couple sentences out of it if you have to—Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922
Lewis was not the only one to use it:
... where the land rises to a couple or three or four feet—W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago, 1924 ... in the phrases a couple peaches, a couple of peaches, only two should be meant—Krapp 1927
http://sprachgefuhl.blogspot.com/2011/08/couple-vs-couple-of.html
From: Shafique Jamal [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:15 PM To: twoscoops/two-scoops-of-django-1.6 Subject: [two-scoops-of-django-1.6] Grammar issue: page 88, paragraph 3 (#58)
"However, there are a couple use cases worth mentioning"
should be
"However, there are a couple of use cases worth mentioning"
or
"There are, however, a couple of use cases worth mentioning"
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pydanny
"However, there are a couple use cases worth mentioning"
should be
"However, there are a couple of use cases worth mentioning"
or
"There are, however, a couple of use cases worth mentioning"