| 词组 | desert, deserts, dessert |
| 释义 | desert, deserts, dessert This is really just a matter of paying attention to spelling. There are two nouns spelled desert. The first of these is the barren desert, and by reason of pronunciation if no other, it seems seldom to be mistaken for the others. The second desert is related to deserve and is pronounced like dessert. It is frequently used as a plural, especially in the phrase just deserts (which one gets). Here we have the real spelling problem. We find desert in place of dessert from 1833 to 1984 (and we suspect we have not seen the last of it). And the opposite error—just desserts, as if chocolate cake or cherries jubilee were being substituted for what one deserves—has been detected by Bernstein 1962 in the New York Times, by Simon 1980 in Time, and by one of our editors in a 1986 "Bloom County" comic strip. Care is all that is needed here. Take your time, think, trust your dictionary, and reform your ways (if need be). And don't you just know that somewhere there is an ice-cream emporium called Just Desserts? |
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