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
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Srecko Ladisicsays
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.”
Srecko Ladisic says
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
Eva Easton says
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.)).
Eva Easton says
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.”
Eva Easton says
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