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Ever wondered why it's Ping Pong or Bing Bong, Ding Dong, King Kong, or Sing Song and never the other way around? No....of course you haven't!
....but if it was it would sound wrong!
It is something you may not know that you know but there is a sequence of vowel changes it is always: I then O or I then A, or, if three words, then I A O.
So Clip Clop, Flip Flop, Hip Hop Tick Tock and Zig Zag, Mish Mash, Tic Tac, KitKat, Jingle Jangle or Bish Bash Bosh, Tic Tac Toe, Bing Bang Bong!
There is a similar rule, not taught in School, we all follow withought knowing which is why we have Big Blue Sky or Little Green men but never a Blue Big Sky or Green Little men! We all place adjectives in the following order without ever being taught to do so, we just pick it:
Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose then the noun!
So we can have a lovely, little, old, rectangular , green, French, silver, whittling KNIFE but if you change ther order you'll sound like a maniac! (Extract from Mark Forsyth's Book "The Elements of Eloquence"- Chapter 8!)
Thought some of you may be interested whereas others may just think its Poo!
(i'm sure the will be some crass/ sarcastic comments but that's to be expected . However, I hope at least one of you smiles and thinks...No I didn't know that!
oh yes, bringing it back to why we are all here..."C'mon you R's"
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. However, I hope at least one of you smiles and thinks...No I didn't know that! 
