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A deserted desert

Various ways of looking at a small group of words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2015

Michael Bulley
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This article is about a small group of words in English, ones beginning with the prefix <de->, followed by <s> and a vowel. If we omit rare words and obvious derivations, we end up with the following list:

desalinate, desaturate, desecrate, desegregate, deselect, desensitise, desert, deserve, desiccate, design, designate, desire, desist, desolate, desuetude, desultory

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English Today , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 18 - 20
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