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Things native english speakers know but don't know they know.
Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape- color-origin-material-purpose Noun.
So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.
But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you will sound like a maniac.
It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list.
But almost none of us could write it out.
And as size comes before color, green great dragons can't exist.
#humor #EnglishLanguage #WordsOrder
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2026-05-03 06:12:04 UTCEvent JSON
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