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?
A phrase, not a word (and I forget the book), but the author kept saying that characters ears were burning to indicate that they were angry. I’d never heard that phrase used in that context, and it was used that way a bunch of times in the book.