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
Nominalized adjective "homeless", "disabled", "blind", "deaf", etc., as well as certain demonyms such as "English", "Welsh", "Irish", "French", "Dutch". Another case is when an adjective is used to denote a single object with the property, as in "you take the long route, and I'll take the "short"". Here "the short" stands for "the short route". A much more common alternative in the modern language is the structure using the prop-word "one": "the short one". However, the use of the adjective alone is fairly common in the case of superlatives such as "biggest", ordinal numbers such as "first", "second", etc., and other related