Even though saying “the big brown brick wall” means the same as saying “the brick brown big wall”, the second feels so very wrong.
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[Someone wrote a book about it in 2013.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Eloquence)
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>adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a loverly little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll 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 colour, green great dragons can’t exist.
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