Re: Your Favorite Block/Blocks?

palette is said pal lay? in french.
oh dear me, been saying that one wrong all these yrs as well.
i need a smack to the side of my head.
how could i make such an obvious error.
i know its french and still never clicked til i read u'r post.
oh my, i am not having a good day i think.
jeanne
<herbs/erbs, roof/ruff, tomato/matties, sandwich/sammies, house/howse/hoose,
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"DrQuilter" wrote...
> how about 'palette', 'pallet' and 'palate'? I was convinced the first one
> was pronounced pahl-et as in french, but they tell me all three are
> pronounced the same! hard to believe! but I still stand by my bona fide
> (bona feed-e) and not faid.... it's latin!
>
> nzlstar* wrote:
>
>> yup, Sandy,
>> you, cathy, snigs and sally all said it the way they did.
>> amazing i've been saying it incorrectly for yonks, now.
>> i love when this happens and takes me a while to get it stuck into my
>> brain.
>> keeps the brain moving correctly.
>> i am pedantic and like it when this happens to me.
>> really annoys me when others dont 'get' a correct pronunciation on
>> something and even when its pointed out they still refuse to change.
>> i dont worry about those dialectic ones only those with one correct way
>> of saying a word.
>> still working on a good friend and the diff between 'moreish' and
>> 'moorish'. both sound the same.
>> first one is when a food is so good you just gotta have more (a downunder
>> idiom).
>> the second refers to the type of food/flavour.
>> oh well.
>> jeanne
>> <it keeps my brain ticking over, eh>
>
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