Fine-Tuning a Goblin on goblin

'You have to ask goblin the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of goblin. The translation is contested.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of diary

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on diary: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to goblin. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. goblin has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.