Do Americans use the word "sundry" in every day speech that much?

Question

Will you please give me some example sentences using the word "sundry"?

Answer 1

You'd be more likely to hear someone say divers.

Answer 2

No, they don't. It sort of means'"miscellaneous." "Here are some sundry items you might want to sell at your moving sale."

Answer 3

‘At the same time, one should note that their presentation on spreadsheets produced with sundry software, is slightly primitive and ‘clunky.’’

‘There's little ambiguity about the adroitness of the guitarists' noise making, and their deft improvising takes the album in sundry directions.’

‘Track four rises out of hiss, radio signals, sundry bleeps and breath like the atmosphere rising out of a tropical swamp.’

Answer 4

‘What ties together these sundry ingredients is the vision of delivering information through any medium, anywhere in the world, at any time.’

‘Music is parsed as pieces or works, with movements and sections, and ultimately with sundry units that become smaller and smaller, making music a collection of larger things composed of smaller things.’

‘To take dry facts, the occasional anecdote and reams of information from sundry sources, and weave them together into a narrative that is both interesting and informative can be a daunting task.’

Answer 5

Not a common word but you will hear it now and again to mean "various undefined items of little real importance".

Answer 6

I cannot answer for the UISA, but in Britain the use of "sundry" on its own is rare. There is an expression "all and sundry", meaning "all sorts of people", or "all the bits and pieces we are talking about" and similar, but even that is not quite "everyday".



If you are learning English as a foreign language, the word "sundry" might be low on your list of priorities, as far as I am concerned in Britain.

Answer 7

I have only rarely heard it. If I've heard it at all, it's been in the phrase, "all and sundry" meaning everything or everyone. "I made cookies for all and sundry."

Answer 8

As an American of long standing I would say the majority of Americans have never used it in everyday speech, and probably not in any other context. They'd use "various" or "miscellaneous."

Answer 9

Very outdated. You used to hear it in a phrase as 'various and sundry' in describing subjects that are insignificant and deemed not worth listing separately, but 'sundry' has been dropped. Five and ten cent stores (which disappeared long ago) sold 'sundries', a term for common, cheap items that were, again, not worth listing individually.

Answer 10

Occasionally, people log into Yahoo Answers to inquire about sundry obscure vocabulary like the word sundry.