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Do you ever notice an author using a word over and over again? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by PastaConsumer@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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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?

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[–] bitter-butter@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only two or three times in the three books that are out, so not that egregious, but in the Locked Tomb series someone is constantly saying something “sotto voce”…It’s such a unique way of saying “whisper” that I can’t help to notice it and think “You really enjoyed that turn of phrase, eh?”

[–] TempestRime@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't notice that one as much as I noticed "wetly" being used to describe things that were definitely not actually wet.