idiolect

• However — perhaps this is just my own personal idiolect, but I'm somewhat surprised to find that almost no definition of solid mentions that it's necessarily a substantial favor.You could say, "Would you do me a favor and pass the mustard," but you would never call that a solid.
• "The notion of 'idiolect' therefore, must be as preoccupied with derivation and idiosynchratic patterns of influence as it is with individuality." —  Word Magazine - Comments
• I think someone should start a stub on idiolect, I've been thinking of documenting my own on a supplementary user page ... —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Having interviewed many elderly witnesses, as well as having elderly friends and family, the idiolect seemed incongruous with such a person. —  THE UFO CHRONICLES
• He cloaked this ferocious intelligence of his, these hyperactive neurons, in a stoner / frat-boy idiolect w / contractions thus and Meaningful Capitalisations and screeds of involuted footnotes and an irresistible attraction to the goofy gag. —  Telegraph Blogs

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