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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
In the first, it is just a manner of speaking, when the number is not certain. The person obviously had not counted the boys, so was guessing that there were 5 or 6.
In the second case, that is pretty common when the person is being kept anonymous. I usually don't see it for cities, but it would be the same thing there, where he didn't want the city to be known.
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Is that all it would be; just a way of guessing, as we all do in normal life, and a way of keeping people and places anonymous? Meh. I had hoped there was something more to it. Some sort of reason beyond the obvious.