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idiolect noun [ ˈɪdɪəlɛkt ]

• the speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
• "in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels ‘angelicals’"
Origin: 1940s: from idio- ‘own, personal’ + -lect as in dialect .

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