Need a mnemonic to remember difference between the spelling of the palate in your mouth and an artist’s palette? Associate the one in your mouth with the past tense of the verb to eat. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Palate vs. Palette”
On Facebook, Lindsay Lachelle posted the question, “What’s a good mnemonic for remembering the difference between palette like the palette in your mouth and palette like the palette in an artist’s hand?”
Okay. Any thoughts about that?
No. It’s not a problem for me, but maybe she has a problem with it?
Yeah, and apparently other people do, and they suggested something interesting to me, which was that you can remember the palate in your mouth by thinking about the past tense of eat.
Oh, because eat is in palate, the part of your mouth.
Right. Perfect. So your palate in your mouth is p-a-l-a-t-e. The palette in an artist’s hand is p-a-l-e-t-t-e.
