{"id":37293,"date":"2013-05-13T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=37293"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:09:56","slug":"palate-palette-or-pallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/37293","title":{"rendered":"palate, palette, or pallet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFeeling quizzical today?<\/p>\n<p>I am.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a trio of terms that tend to trick the tongue and perplex the pen \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>palate<\/li>\n<li>palette<\/li>\n<li>pallet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t match the following definitions with the words above, I have a fun exercise for you that I came up with so I can remember the spelling of each.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a wooden bed or flat platform onto which goods are loaded<\/li>\n<li>the roof of your mouth or sense of taste<\/li>\n<li>a flat board an artist mixes paint on or a range of colors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a guess, and then scroll down to find out how I remember these rascally words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Palate<\/strong>: the roof of your mouth or sense of taste<\/p>\n<p>(spelled\u00a0<strong>plate<\/strong> with an <strong>a<\/strong> added)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My palate is best\u00a0served when I use a plate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-37409 aligncenter\" alt=\"pallete1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pallete1.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pallet<\/strong>: a wooden bed or a flat platform onto which goods are loaded<\/p>\n<p>(Ma Mallet and Pa Pallet are\u00a0a team)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring me that mallet so I can take apart this pallet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image wp-image-37374  aligncenter\" alt=\"_MG_6002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_6002.jpg\" width=\"376\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Palette<\/strong>: a flat board an artist mixes paint on or a range of colors<\/p>\n<p>(pal-ette\u00a0smacks of\u00a0French, well,\u00a0because it is)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The French artist was mixing paints on a palette while wearing a French barette.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo by Jennifer Rensel via Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gleaming_word-wasserfarben_und_pinsel.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"257\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jennifer Rensel via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling quizzical today? I am. Here&#8217;s a trio of terms that tend to trick the tongue and perplex the pen \u2026 palate palette pallet If you can&#8217;t match the following definitions with the words above, I have a fun exercise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/37293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/37293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}