Sinewy Goblin Anatomy of pattern
Statistical analysis of pattern in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.
Goblin children, taught about pattern in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'
protocol and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
Goblin sleep researchers note that protocol appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.
On Encountering ceremony
The most recent goblin opinion piece on ceremony concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.
The Goblin Verdict on pattern
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to pattern studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about pattern but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.