Historic
Blair has won what will be termed everywhere as an “historic” third term. I’m actually quite fed up of this word at this stage of the night. Some originality of phraseology would be very much appreciated. Yes, commentators are, like us, tired, but if you’ve been playing the BBC’s election night Bingo you’ll be wishing that the word had appeared on all your cards.
So I’ve taken the liberty to pick up a thesaurus to see what alternatives are available:
Significant
Momentous
Remarkable
Extraordinary
Notable
Earth-shattering
Brian Perkins has just used “unprecedented” on Radio 4, but if anyone else can add to this list please do so by making a comment to this post.