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Quite and other words

Posted by Uncle Jimbo on 2020-12-26 09:08:01

I can confirm that as an American, when I say "quite good" I mean "very good" (actually a bit better than "very good").  I did not know that in the UK "quite good" means "fairly good".  So, in the UK what does "quite a bit" mean?  To us it means "a lot" ("much").

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Quite and other words by Barry Taylor on  2020-12-26 09:48:27