# Ranking non-specific quantities

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 2, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranking-non-specific-quantities/611569 "2012-02-02T20:06:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranking-non-specific-quantities/611569/1 "2012-02-02T20:06:10Z")

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There may be an older thread on this topic that I may have started long ago, but I didn’t go looking for it.

In your own way of thinking, what’s the order from least to most of terms like:

- several
- few
- some
- a bunch
- a passel
- a heap
- a lot
- scads
- (more terms like these)?