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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 21 21:29:02 2012, in response to Re: One of the worst videos you'll ever watch, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 21 21:23:16 2012. desert 3 |diˈzərt|noun (usu. deserts) a person's worthiness or entitlement to reward or punishment: the penal system fails to punish offenders in accordance with their deserts. PHRASES get (or receive ) one's just deserts receive the appropriate reward or (more usually) punishment for one's actions: those who caused great torment to others rarely got their just deserts. ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from deservir ‘serve well’ (see deserve) . usage: People who get their just deserts get what they deserve. Deserts here is related to deserve, and is spelled with one -s- in the middle. This usage has no relation to the dessert course of a meal, yet the -ss- spelling ( just desserts) is found in the Oxford English Corpus nearly as often as the correct spelling. |
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