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?
Just read the newest Amanda Quick novel. In the first two pages, she wrote that a character “toggled” a light switch. It hit me weird, because I would say something like flicked the switch, but toggled just seemed so random. When I think toggled, I think of a back and forth action, not a one-way, one-motion action. She used it again later in the book.