Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Cliche count

There should be a reason why in the English language, the word cliche has so many synonyms:

banality
platitude
hackneyed
trite
threadbare
shopworn
commonplace
bromide
old-hat
...
...
(and more)

Just so that the use of that word does not become it? (That's probably wrong usage, but as long as you know what I mean, it shouldn't matter?)