"Said Bookism?" Alice interrogated. "What's that?" "Well," Bob exposited, "it's a variety of Purple Prose in which the writer goes out of their way to avoid the word said." "Why would they do this?" ejaculated Alice. "Because," explicated Bob, "it was the fashion at one point. There were even 'said books' you could get mail order with lists of the words that can be used instead of said as saying said was discredited during that time. That's where the name of the trope comes from," he further proclaimed. "But Said Bookism itself is a Discredited Trope these days?" Alice queried.