#3: Desert/Dessert
Question:
If you receive an appropriate punishment, did you get your just deserts or just desserts?
Answer: just deserts
How to Remember It:
This word is unrelated to deserts of the sand and cactus kind, and it isn't about the desserts that provide a sweet finish to a meal.
Instead, this deserts comes from the same word that gave us deserve. (Oddly, it's pronounced like desserts.)
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