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ideolect ai-dee-uh-LEKT noun the speech of an individual or group that constitutes a distinct linguistic pattern in relation to other speakers of the language or dialect 1995Blue Mars...Earth seemed to Nirgal an explosion of idiolects, no two persons employing the same tongue.1999I'm A Stranger Here Myself...noting a steady and seemingly terminal decline in the fragile idiolect.Labels: Bill Bryson, Kim Stanley Robinson
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