此阵列插入的语法较短

Is there a better syntax for this array insertion in PHP? The array already has items and I'm adding items to it. I hate that I have to repeat the array name multiple times like this

$somearray[] = "new item 1"; 
$somearray[] = "new item 2"; 
$somearray[] = "new item 3"; 

array_push($somearray, "new item 1", "new item 2", "new item 3");

how about this?

array_merge($somearray, array('new item 1', 'new item 2', 'new item 3'));