• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      It’s not reallya misspelling. It’s an alternate spelling for a different form of the word. A word that started colloquially. Either way, several words have multiple accepted spellings even outside of regional stuff like color/colour. Pallet and palette are two normal spellings of that word with different main meanings but nigh equivalent over-all meanings, for example. I know I’ve ran in to many more, but the brain’s still starting up…

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        Pallet and palette are homophones, but the different words have distinctly different meanings.

        The problem is the pervasive proliferation of improper phrasing

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          Wrong. Look up the definitions. They literally reference each other as same.

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            Nope.

            Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more pal·let1 noun a straw mattress. a crude or makeshift bed. Tip Similar-sounding words pallet is sometimes confused with palette