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(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:35, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
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.
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And I am your humble servant.
Fucking internet.
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