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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

The problem is the pervasive proliferation of improper phrasing

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Citing a reference is a nice palate cleanser.