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Various and sundry mean the same.
/pedant
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:35, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Yes, they do.
A classic case of different root words from different languages resulting in the same meaning in one. "Sundry", for example comes from the Old English "syndrig", meaning "separate" whereas "Various" comes from the Latin "varius" meaning "changing".

Although the root words mean subtly different things, these two words have come to mean "miscellaneous" in modern English, a usage as crude as it is traditionally incorrect.

So well done.

/bigger fucking pedant.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:36, Reply)
Carry on.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:38, Reply)
See edit.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:40, Reply)
You are the pedant king
And I am your humble servant.

Fucking internet.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:44, Reply)
There's always a bigger fish.
Probably Montague.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:47, Reply)
He knows more irrelevant guff than anyone I've ever met.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:48, Reply)
YESSSSSSS

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:57, Reply)

guff c-list celebrities
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:57, Reply)
If you've got changing genetic disorders I'd be seriously worried, though.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:56, Reply)
I am uniquely afflicted.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:58, Reply)
Yeah I just love those 'various' tomatoes, me.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:38, Reply)
I am upset that this ^, my funniest ever post, appears to have gone entirely unnoticed.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:58, Reply)
I noticed.
I merely said nothing.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:59, Reply)
likewise

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:14, Reply)
*tumbleweeds*

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:20, Reply)
"sun dry"

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 11:49, Reply)

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