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idiolect

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id·i·o·lect  (d--lkt)
n.
The speech of an individual, considered as a linguistic pattern unique among speakers of his or her language or dialect.
[idio- + (dia)lect.]
idi·o·lectal, idi·o·lectic adj.
idiolect
a person’s individual speech habits.
See also: Linguistics
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Noun1.idiolect - the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life
speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication, speech, language - (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"


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For example, Gordon's speech as represented by Odum has some striking aspects that, like the regular omission of definite and indefinite articles, can only be attributed to an unusual idiolect.
Lynn Moss Sanders. Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation ... by Bell, Sharon Masingale / African American Review
Classicists should be willing to help if they are asked but have no proprietary rights over the functional idiolect of modern scientific Latin whose users can use whatever pronunciation they find conducive to communication.
Cicero and Burkholderia cepacia: what's in a name? (Another Dimension) by Williams, Frederick / Emerging Infectious Diseases
This was certainly true of poets as well - "thieves of language," Blank calls them, whose philosophy of composition entailed ransacking vast inventories of foreign languages, social and regional dialects, idiolects, not to mention "English" texts from remote times and places.
Words that Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English by Bruns, Gerald / Renaissance Quarterly
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