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My experience: a lot of the confusion in technical conversations is due to two parties using the same term for different but related concepts. Relabeling the concepts to clarify the distinction is the right thing to do.

>> or could we just use longer words?

Agreed: relabeling, with longer words when necessary, can help.

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Fun parallel: https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/in...

The toolbar is called "tool controls bar," the tool controls bar at the left is called "toolbox," and the toolbox at the right is called "commands bar."

If you asked me I'd say it's 3 toolbars. And why is palette not palette bar?

> And why is palette not palette bar?

My guess that's because palette, the real world object, is something close to a bar itself, so it would be a bit of tautology. From the dictionary:

Palette: a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colours.

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