The things you learn: palette

[pne]

So apparently palette (the thing an artist keeps their paint on) is pronounced /ˈpælɪt/ (rhymes with mallet or, for that matter, pallet, as in the thing that you stack goods and and carry with a forklift).

I had always assumed it was a /pəˈlɛt/ (puh-LET), à la française.

Whodathunkit.

Comments

[marnanel]

I have to think quite hard to remember that the primary meaning of "palette" is "a piece of wood that an artist keeps paint on", because I first learned the word, and still usually see it, as meaning "set of colours available for graphics in an indexed raster system."

I must be a geek or something.