And speaking of binomials, there are also irreversible binomials like “salt and pepper” or “bits and pieces” which sound odd if the order is reversed.
In English we have “husband and wife” but in Vietnamese they do it the other way around: Vợ chồng
Brett
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I’m the co-founder of a little marketing agency in Vietnam and Thailand. I love bookstores, fizzy water, crosswords & foreign languages.
