Mark Forsyth's
The Elements of Eloquence lays out the rules of adjective order that fluent English speakers follow without quite knowing why. 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'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.
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