TSQL - SOME | ANY why are they same with different names?

Question

According to MSDN BOL (Books Online) description on SOME | ANY (Transact-SQL),

SOME and ANY are equivalent.

It does make sense t

Answer 1

SOME and ANY are equivalent. ANY is ANSI syntax. Why SOME is introduced, I do not know. Could be because of readability, but both of next two sentences are easy to understand.

WHERE 5000 < ANY(SELECT Price FROM dbo.items)
WHERE 5000 < SOME(SELECT Price FROM dbo.items)

Although, SQL server will in both cases execute:

WHERE EXISTS(SELECT * FROM dbo.items WHERE price>5000)

which is also very easy to understand.