I’m currently reading The Duke and I and the author is constantly using the word “acerbic”. I had never heard of the word before now and had to google the definition. The word has shown up so much that I’m tempted to go through the book and count its appearances lol.
Have you noticed any authors having favorite words that they use page after page?
Don’t forget the word “singular” appears regularly throughout the series, as in “a singular event” or such.
It’s a shame he didn’t often use the phrase “well regulated” to describe properly functional lives and behaviors, as was the reference of the earlier era. A lot of Constitutional debates would be simplified.