Timeline for Does order matter when writing a sentence including aunt and uncle?
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Sep 9, 2014 at 19:46 | comment | added | Bobson | Sort order: Syllables > logical progression > alphabetically? | |
Sep 9, 2014 at 16:09 | comment | added | Jeffrey714 | Again, it's not a rule. It seems to be a tendency, at least for people pairs. How about mother and father, father and mother, sisters and brothers, brothers and sisters, and niece and nephew? Sooner or later is ordered sequentially. Of Mice and Men is a title of a book. I don't hear oranges and lemons too often, but we do say apples and oranges not oranges and apples. | |
Sep 9, 2014 at 14:42 | comment | added | MiniRagnarok | @dj18 Nope. books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
Sep 9, 2014 at 14:32 | comment | added | dj18 | "fork and knife" sounds much more natural to me than "knife and fork". | |
Sep 9, 2014 at 12:01 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | That's a good rule of thumb, and it works most of the time but it's not bulletproof. What about Mom and Dad; black and white (not white and black); knife and fork (not fork and knife); sooner or later (not later or sooner); of mice and men and, ironically, oranges and lemons etc. | |
Sep 9, 2014 at 10:49 | history | edited | Jeffrey714 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Sep 9, 2014 at 10:39 | history | answered | Jeffrey714 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |