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    Palette. A pallet holds bricks and a palate tastes food

      • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
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        I’m picturing now competitions in which people compete to see how many bricks at once they can carry on a palette X number of feet

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      This is what I get for using speech to text and pressing send.

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      Palette sounds too french for my English soul

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        They’re all from French. Pallet comes from a a word for straw, palette for shovel, and palate for the top of the mouth.

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            Also French, from “small ball. Originally Latin pilla, meaning it’s twinned with pill. Pill came direct from Latin though, so no weird French influences.