Comments on: Tommy Bahama Set Sail Martinique ~ new fragrances

By: Celestia

Celestia — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:42:05 +0000

Yes, you’re so right about the punctuation. When I pressed “Post Comment”, I was horrified to see that I hadn’t closed the brackets. I have realized that I spelled “palette” incorrectly twice (ouch!). Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! I scurried to my OED to find out that in the second usage of pallet, the third definition actually says, an artist’s palette”! Well, live and learn.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:39:58 +0000

Well, thank goodness the women’s scent is opening with fruit!. We haven’t had that for awhile….

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:45:01 +0000

To be honest ‘pallet’ does not bother me as much as the extra comma in the first sentence and the semi-colon in the second sentence. But we make plenty of errors here so will not throw stones

By: Celestia

Celestia — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:19:47 +0000

The misuse of pallet, palate and pallette has been my pet peeve lately. I’m in Canada where we’re supposed to be bilingual so I don’t understand why it is such a stretch to use “pallette” to describe an array of colours in our newspapers. (This ad copy for Tommy Bahama obviously stems from the US.
Being an ozonic freak, I like most of Tommy Bahama’s fragrances, as well as his fashions for men and women. Ah, the island life…

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:14:02 +0000

LOL…and in fact they might well be, I’ve never been there.

By: maggiecat

maggiecat — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:23:49 +0000

Well, the houses in Martinique could be resting on colorful pallets, for all I know…I’m not tempted by this, but then, I can hardly feel morally superior given all of the many other things I’m being tempted by.