On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 02:18:20PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:
>      
>      > * doc/guix.texi (Services): "Various" -> "Miscellaneous"
>      
>      How does the meaning of these two words differ?  (I???m not a native
>      speaker, so I???m curious.)
> 
> It is a subtle nuance.
> 
> What I understand from "Various Services" is "A group of services which I chose arbitrarily".
> Wheras "Miscellaneous Services" means to me: "Services which don't fit into any of the
> hitherto mentioned categories".
> 
> Perhaps there is no formal difference, but "various" sounds odd to me in that context.
> I think that "miscellaneous" is more common in such use cases.

I don't find this use of "various" to be confusing or strange, but
"miscellaneous" is more idiomatic in this context.