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?
His prose tends to be a shade too pompous for my taste.
One of the more annoying tics of 18th-century prose is the habit of referring to people as “the [adjective] So-and-So”, instead of referring simply to “So-and-So”.