Fonda Lee uses the word “nonplussed” in her green bone series what felt like a lot for a less common word.

I quit reading Lee Child because of a repeated fascination with " I said nothing " . Like not repeated four or five times…it felt like he was several hundred words short of a word goal so he added " I said nothing " into the manuscript to fill the gap.

I’m guilty of variations of “incredulous” when people don’t believe something.

George RR Martin and the word “Nuncle”. It took me a long time to realize he meant “Uncle”.

I am reading The picture of Dorian Gray, and have noticed that the word conscience pops up very often. I don’t know if it’s a commonly used word I didn’t know what it exactly meant before. It may be a commonly used term but English isn’t my first language.

Battlefield earth. L Ron Hubbard. Leverage

I remember having this same experience with Faulkner and the word “inexorable”.

Which horror author is it that notoriously loves the word “rump”?

Enzyme bonded concrete

Lisa Kleypas uses sardonic for almost every expression her male leads have.

James Luceno, Darth Paleguis, and the word genuflected. I’m not sure if I ever heard it before this book, but it sounds so fancy I kind of want to incorporate it into my speech, lol.

I love Megan Miranda but if she uses “from a remove” one more time I will scream.

And so it goes

Stephen King went through a taffy stage in IT. Stuff was stretching like taffy waaaay too often.

If you you took a shot every time William Faulkner uses the word “recapitulation” you’d be almost as drunk as William Faulkner