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Re: MS Word problem

From	Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
Subject	Re: MS Word problem
Date	2011-06-14 10:32 +1000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<it6a7o$5bq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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mbyerley brought next idea :
> "Michael Cole" <invalid@microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:it45r6$q4p$1@dont-email.me...
>> Access Developer brought next idea :
>>
>>> It's not just Microsoft, and it's not 'just desserts'.
>>
>> Minor quibble - you are correct in that it is not 'just desserts'.  It is 
>> actually 'just deserts' (one 's').
>>
>
>   your error.  Dessert is food and desert is dry arid region.

Which might be relevent if we were talking about either food or dry 
arid regions, wheras we are actually talking about a desert being what 
someone deserves.  One 's'.

Contrary to popular belief, the phrase has nothing to do with food.  
Not my error.

-- 
Michael Cole

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