What does “clichd” mean?
I read in one of my favorite online newspapers the following phrase:

No clichd narrative
Although she doesn’t go in for sometimes clichd narrative of the struggling woman in a male-dominated society, she appreciates the importance and symbolism of her role in the bookstore.

Is “clichd” related to cliché or to the German word Kitsch?
Is it a tipo for cliched? The article is full of tipos.

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What does “clichd” mean?
I read in one of my favorite online newspapers  the following phrase:

No clichd narrative
Although she doesn’t go in for sometimes clichd narrative of the struggling woman in a male-dominated society, she appreciates the importance and symbolism of her role  in the bookstore.

Is “clichd” related to cliché or to the German word Kitsch?
Is it a tipo for cliched? The article is full of tipos.

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Hi! It is a typo for cliched, yes. Some people spell it with the accent aigu'ed é but in English this is not standard practice, one could argue. The ch in cliched is pronounced like 'sh' or /ʃ/ in phonemic transcription.

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Various dictionaries recognize a derived adjective cliched,with the same meaning as Cliche. However some dictionaries do not'

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Definitely a typo for "clichéd". The word "clichéd" originates from French and is spelled with an accent, which may be hard to input for some users.

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I suspect that the original may have had the é, and that got dropped, rather than changed into an e, at some stage in the pre-press data processing.

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How do you pronounce the CH? Like SH or like CH in chestnut?

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