Syllable Stress
The rhythm of English is based on stress patterns.
In this video, we practice syllable stress in:
a desert … a dessert, to desert
Now it’s your turn.
Here’s your audio quiz.
Fill in the correct word.
Eva Easton's American English Pronunciation
American English Pronunciation
Thanks for the lesson!
A question.
He got his just deserts.
Is “just” here connected to “justice” anyhow?
I remember reading in novels or history books, stories where someone would be punished by being evicted out of the city and sent to a desert. And as the person was usually convicted of a crime, it was justified to do so.
So I just wonder how this idiom came to be…
Thank you
just (adj.): directly from Latin iustus “upright, righteous, equitable; in accordance with law, lawful; true, proper; perfect, complete” (source also of Spanish and Portuguese justo, Italian giusto)
justice: from Latin iustitia “righteousness, equity,” from iustus “upright, just” (see just (adj.)).
Deserts, in the sense of ‘things deserved’ has been used in English since at least the 13th century. A citation in which it is linked with ‘just’ comes from 1599, in Warning Faire Women:
“Upon a pillory – that al the world may see, A just desert for such impiety.”
internal or external exile is common in history. Many well-known people were exiled.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lenin-returns-to-russia-from-exile