Both Uses of
vary
in
Do You Speak American?
- Some are harmless, like the widespread conviction that Elizabethan, or even Shakespearean, English is still spoken in Appalachia, South Carolina, or Tidewater Virginia—the location varies—but we have a story to put that one to rest.†
Chpt Intr. *varies = differs; or changes
- The speech in New Orleans has origins as varied as the city's celebrated food, which Mark Twain called "as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.†
Chpt 4varied = differed; or changed
Definition:
to be different, or to change
Vary is often used to describe small differences or changes--especially about things of the same type. It would be more common to say "The weight of full-grown elephants varies depending upon diet and other factors," than to say "The weight of elephants varies from that of mice."