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

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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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[–] BadResults@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

u/JaimTorfinn did a deep dive on this last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/vwo4to/arms_folded_beneath_breasts_analysis/

Women crossed their arms 219 times, with breasts mentioned in 75 of those. Knife of Dreams was the worst offender with 17 instances, and The Fires of Heaven was a distant second at 8.

For comparison, men crossed their arms 75 times.