Transportation is different than commute. The latter implies travelling back and forth on a regular basis.

Some Japanese modern music shrills. I can't stand that.

Prosody is obviously important in the English language.

I suspect that "moon and sea" is used much more often than "sea and moon". In the former, the sound /u:/ precedes /i:/. Why does the former seem more natural to English speakers than the latter?

By contrast, in the idiom "monkey see, monkey do", the vowel /i:/ comes before /u:/.