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 2. The titles of Jane Austen’s novels, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, follow a prosodic preference called the “law of lengthening limbs,” in which longer words come after shorter ones in certain set expressions. Anyone, even lacking a poetic ear, can hear that these titles sound better than Prejudice and Pride or Sensibility and Sense. For several weeks I am obsessed with this “law” and try to find as many examples (and counter-examples) as I can. Aid and abet. Trials and tribulations…