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26 Feb 2023, 7:08 pm

A desert is hot. A dessert is something you eat.



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26 Feb 2023, 7:10 pm

Pfft. Speak for yourself.


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26 Feb 2023, 7:13 pm

Yum, my desert tasted delicious.

I sure am hot stuck in this dessert.

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26 Feb 2023, 7:19 pm

There is also a verb "desert" that is related to the noun "desert", but pronounced like "dessert".



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27 Feb 2023, 10:33 am

I crashed on a desserted island once. Had to survive for 8 months off of nothing but chocolate, icing and rainbow sprinkles.


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27 Feb 2023, 8:44 pm

Some tunes while we all ponder it.


https://youtu.be/jWMTJ0oepCU


https://youtu.be/Dew5S1taPuw



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27 Feb 2023, 8:56 pm

Not all desserts are hot. I heard Antarctica is a desert. And deserts that are very hot during the day cool off quite a bit at night. That's why lions sleep most of the day until it gets dark.

Desserts can be hot or cold, but they're always cool. :D



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27 Feb 2023, 9:07 pm

Yes. The Gobi desert is rarely hot because its so far north.

And if you define "desert" as any place that gets less than ten inches of rain a year than both polar ice caps are deserts, as well the tundra regions.



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27 Feb 2023, 9:16 pm

Has anyone ever produced a dissertation on these matters?


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27 Feb 2023, 9:59 pm

I miss you like the deserts miss the rain.



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28 Feb 2023, 9:19 am

And then there are "just deserts".

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28 Feb 2023, 1:14 pm

My guess is that ice cream and retribution (but not the Sahara) are related meanings having to do with 'getting something deserved'. Getting dessert, and getting just desserts.

Desert the noun (Sahara) seems to be of an unrelated origin.It is derived from de-ZERT the verb. A 'desert' is a place that is 'deserted'(uninhabitated). Originally it meant any non cultivated land. Could be a wet swamp. The meaning got narrowed to mean a dry place without even wild vegetation. The archaic meaning is retained in place names like the state of Maine's "Mount Desert Island" which is a green and well watered but uninhabited park on a rock off of the coast. And in the theme song of "Gilligan's Island" (now theyre stranded on this uncharted desert island...with Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire and his wife.....").

Sorry ...if this sounds like a...dissertation on the subject.

Dont know how the word "dissertation" relates to either desert or dessert.



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28 Feb 2023, 3:02 pm

"desserts" is "stressed" spelled backwards.