NO, IT ISN`T..

`Incredible` seems to be the most overused word in the English language these days. Well, maybe not overused so much as wrongly used. My dictionary`s definition of incredible is "so extraordinary as to seem impossible." And yet we are asked to believe that....

- Cheryl Cole is incredibly beautiful;

- Ashley Cole is incredibly talented;

- The snow is incredibly deep;

- `He`s incredible for his age;`

........and so on. You hear it all the time and it just ain`t right. Even if they might be true, all of the above examples, along with the countless others you hear every day on radio and tv, are capable of being understood and none of them come close to `so extraordinary as to seem impossible.`

What are incredible are things like time and space and infinity. I just can`t get my head around the concept of infinity, for example, which suggests that there are no boundaries to space or time, either backwards or forwards, no beginning, no end, just `infinity.` Now that`s truly incredible. And it brings into sharp focus the blink of an eye lives we lead on this speck of dust in our obscure corner of incredible vastness. So I wish people would use `very` instead of `incredible,` even if that might also lead to undeserved and unwarranted exaggeration.