this is a pallet:
the op means palette. palette is a board you put small amounts of paints on when painting, it's also the word for a set of assigned colours on computer displays like VGA which can have only 256 but you have to set each one individually out of a bigger set.
it's a tiny little spatula similar to the ones bricklayers use to shape mortar, but for oil and acrylic paints.
they have the same phonetic in many english languages, but i try to emphasise the last syllable in the art one, first in the cargo carrying tool. PALLet, palETTe.
pps: many many times spelling and pronunciation have traveled from place to place and got mangled like this. english is full of words spelt with french, welsh, latin, english, spanish, and other language latinisation but then end up pronounced entirely different in many places.
like, when i say 'cicada' i say it 'sikAAADa' and my irish friend doesn't understand at first and then says 'sikAYda'
this was one of the joys of being in Bulgaria, where they are really fussy about pronunciation, although they deliberately mangle everything with W to V and TH to T.
