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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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[–] OskarPapa@alien.top 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I read some stupid alien book by Kathleen Marden, and I swear she used the word «prosaic» probably a hundred times in the book. It was so bad it almost felt like she was using it as a joke to see how many times she could get away with it.

[–] SingingPear@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Sometimes you wonder what the hell their editor was doing?!