Same principle here as the previous two posts. Change the stress on one of the syllables, and you change the entire meaning of the word.
If you de-SERT something, you abandon it. Hopefully, when you were a child you didn't come home to find the house deserted. . .or did you? That would explain a lot.
If you live in the Southwest as I do, you know all about the DES-ert, that arid bit of territory that seems to get hotter every year.
Speaking of which, do you know that we broke a record here yesterday of 96 degrees? That's right. . .96!! It's November for crying out loud.
Sorry. I didn't mean to upset those of you in the East and Midwest suffering sub-zero temperatures and endless snow. I guess 96 doesn't sound so bad after all. I think I'll stay right here.
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- Obviously, the picture is not of me. It's our pride and joy, Daisy. She's a lot better looking than I am, so I figured you'd want to look at her instead. I'll write the posts, however. She can't. She doesn't have opposable thumbs. Currently, I teach high school English, and, since I'm trying to improve the use of language in 16-year-olds, I thought I'd branch out and give some pointers to adults, too. Hope you're not offended. It's just my way of improving the world -- one day at a time. Oh, by the way, I'm always available for freelance writing/editing jobs -- and I'm pretty inexpensive, so. . .
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