I sympathise with your allergy to the word "novel". When I see that word in the title of a paper I tend to assume that the author is a desperate PhD student des

I sympathise with your allergy to the word "novel". When I see that word in the title of a paper I tend to assume that the author is a desperate PhD student describing some method that is slightly different from the normal and obvious way of doing things and which works only slightly less well. The first sentence of the abstract SHALL contain the word "ubiquitous".