Meaning & use
idiolect
The distinctive speech and language patterns unique to a particular individual.
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His idiolect included several old-fashioned phrases he learned from his grandfather.
Linguists studied her idiolect to trace which regions had shaped her speech.
A note on using this word
Idiolect refers to one person's individual language use, while dialect describes patterns shared by a whole community.
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