such a cute lil’ adjective – does what it says on the tin etc.

GSE, I can see why you’d prefer vanillic (is it a perfumery term?) but I like the monastic angle too.

Tim, that makes me think of a huge jam doughnut heart being fed by strawberry jam veins and custard vanillaries! Mmmm, custard…

Mr D: No, Scots accents don’t have ‘intrusive’ r (‘linking’ sounds less dismissive. Is my terminology out-of-date?) generally speaking, although I think your first example would be perfectly possible. The second one wouldn’t – Scotland doesn’t recognise that famous legal female Laura Norder! ‘Vanillary’ interested me because it seemed to be an attempt to represent spoken English in a relatively formal context.

Oh of course, you don’t have a linking-r up there, do you? So you wouldn’t say, as a bizarre example: “I put my finger ro na norange or ra napple,’ would you? And I suppose you’d simply have The Law of Scotland, rather than our Law rof England. So ‘vanillary’ might not make much sense to rhotic speakers, I’m guessing. Right?

Russian has a uniform way of making adjectives and when I looked up what would be Russian for vanillary, it gave me vanillic. I think I prefer the Sparksianism.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens.

Lawrence Block, especially the Burglar series.