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> dessert, pudding, sweet and afters dessert, pudding, sweet and afters all mean the same thing. They refer to the last and sweet course of a meal. Dessert has relatively recently become the most widespread of these terms. Pudding was previously regarded by the upper and middle classes as the most acceptable word of these, but it is now thought of by many as being rather old-fashioned or as being more suited to certain types of dessert than others-thus syrup sponge would be a pudding, but not fresh fruit salad. Sweet is a less formal word and is regarded by some people as being lower-class or regional. Afters is common only in very informal English.• See also desert. Pour éviter fautes de grammaire, contresens et confusions. The English Usage Dictionary est le parfait complément des dictionnaires bilingues, du dictionnaire de définitions anglaises et du Thesaurus. Ce dictionnaire signale toutes les difficultés que recèle l'usage d'un mot: orthographe, grammaire, prononciation, homonymies, etc. Exemple d'article du dictionnaire English Usage Dictionary