This one always throws me - broad palate or broad palette?

[UnquietDad]

Because I see both used these days. One is obviously wrong, or at least derived semi-ironically from the other.

It strikes me that you can have both - an artist's palette which is broad and encompasses many colours like this or a palate broad enough to appreciate a variety of (palatable) tastes.

I'm sure you pedants will set me straight!

Either this has stumped everyone or I am so terminally stupid that you are all laughing at me.

I'm stumped.

palate.

so there.

I'm stumped too!

What context is it used in though - give us a phrase!

I would instinctively go for broad palette because it tends to get used in the sense of having lots of options to choose from, but I could be completely wrong.

Have just googled both - palate seems to be mostly about taste specifically but palette is for the other senses.

Does this help?

palate is def only for taste.

palette is an artist's thing. So yes, you can have both, but they are both different, iykwim.

Palette. I've always taken it to derive from an artist's palette broad enough to accomodate many colours.

surely palette?

Accommodate

palette, unless you are specifically referring to foody taste

i think palette -this would mean a broad range which is what the phrase means doesn't it?
broad palate could mean you have a big gob...

I googled both and found both in common use, which was why I thought I'd ask.

I would say palate, but have always understood the meaning to be something akin to "catholic taste". I suppose palette would work fine in the other sense.

Here's an extract from the OED which appears to indicate it's palette, although their example is wide palette rather than broad.

palette, n
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c. Any range or assortment of similar items, qualities, etc., from which selection is or can be made; (Music) the characteristic range of tonal or instrumental colour in a particular musical piece or a particular composer's work. Also more generally: a variety or choice, a spectrum.
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2002 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Sept. IV. 6/1 (caption) This four-season garden featured a wide palette of plants.

Sounds convincing to me.

it is palette. Of course it's palette. If it were palate it would mean, as CIS says, a big mouth.