"or so"

[Mark Mandel]

grew up NYC and suburbs, 50s and early 60s. Just "approximately", no "at
least".

m a m

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:34 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Interesting. I'm in the feather-susceptible crowd; "or so" has always
> for me carried an implication of "probably at least." Very similar to
> what Randy says. Perhaps we can draw an isogloss on this?
>

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