You live and learn

I was just reading Tom Sawyer again and came across the term 'dessert spoon.' I looked it up in the dictionary to see what it is. Turns out that what I've called a teaspoon all my life is in fact a dessert spoon. A teaspoon, the measuring version of which I use often, is really quite small! I think my mother had one silver teaspoon (not part of her set of silver), and the rest of her smaller silver spoons and all her smaller stainless spoons were dessert spoons!