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Thursday, November 10, 2005

You Can Have Your Dessert in a Desert

Don't mix the spelling of these two. It might leave a bad taste in your mouth -- or your reader's. Dessert is the noun we all know and love as the final course of a meal. Sweets to wrap up a culinary experience, or to make a bad day better. It always has two S's in it. Especially when you are saying... Sign in to see full entry.

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