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?
Reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and if her characters say “ghastly” one more time, the book gets yeeted out the window. Not really but omg!