Adjective may be more rigid in some languages than others; in some, like Spanish, it may only be a default ("unmarked") word order, with other orders being permissible. Other languages, such as Tagalog, follow their adjectival orders as rigidly as English. The normal adjectival order of English may be overridden in certain circumstances, especially when one adjective is being fronted. In addition, the usual order of adjectives in English would result in the phrase "the bad big wolf" (opinion before size), but instead the usual phrase is "the big bad wolf", perhaps because the ablaut reduplication rule that high vowels precede
The Great Australian Adjective sunburnt ---- stockman stood And, in a dismal ---- mood, "The ---- nag's no ---- good, He couldn't earn his ---- food - </poem> Bill Hornadge, in "The Australian Slanguage", his survey of Australian English and its usage, states that "The word BLOODY has for so long been called the Great Australian Adjective", and explains that ""The Bulletin" is generally given the credit for naming 'bloody' as The Great Australian Adjective (in 1894) explaining that it called it this: '...because it is more used and used more exclusively by Australians than by any other allegedly civilised nation.'" In 1927, in