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?
Off topic but a fun fact…
Stephen Fry was contacted to read for the Harry Potter audio books. The first time he met JK Rowling she told him she had already wrote a second book. He said in a condescending tone, “Well good for you.”
When he was reading the third or fourth book there was the phrase “Harry pocketed it”. Fry could not say it, after many tries he called Rowling asking to change the phrase. She said no because kids reading along would get confused by the change.
So Fry finally got the phrase recorded, and then every Potter book after that Rowling included the phrase “Harry pocketed it” just as a jab at Fry.
Sounds just like the kind of pettiness she’d indulge in