I used to think that certain quantitative words had numbers assigned to them. If 'a couple' was two, 'a few' was three and 'a lot' was four. Naturally, 'several' was seven. I still adhere loosely to this hierarchy of counting.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- My birthday was on a different day every year, assigned by my parentsAnon
- I used to believe that ATM'S had little people inside them counting moneyAnon
- I used to believe the way they counted up votes was by counting the signs people used to put on their yards— Jaci Marshall
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson