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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
1995Kim Stanley RobinsonBlue Mars...Earth seemed to Nirgal an explosion of idiolects, no two persons employing the same tongue.1999Bill BrysonI'm A Stranger Here Myself...noting a steady and seemingly terminal decline in the fragile idiolect.

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