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
Proper adjective as "chauvinistic". In addition, over time, an adjective can lose its capitalization by convention, generally when the word has overshadowed its original reference, such as "gargantuan", "quixotic", "titanic", or "roman" in the term "roman numerals". An adverb formed from a capitalized adjective is itself capitalized. For example: Verbs such as "Canadianize" are written with a capital letter, although not generally described as "proper verbs". Proper adjective In English orthography, the term proper adjective is sometimes applied to adjectives that take initial capital letters, and the term common adjective to those that do not. For example, a person from Boston is