775 – Why We Talk About ‘Bad Apples.’ ‘A Few’ Versus ‘a Couple’

We started to wonder why people seem to forget the second half of the saying about bad apples. Plus, we settle a dispute about the difference between “a couple” and “a few.”

Read the transcripts: Bad Apples. A Couple and a Few.

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