idiolect

Definitions


[ˈɪdɪəlɛkt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the speech habits peculiar to a particular person
(e.g: in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels ‘angelicals’)


Phrases:

Origin:
1940s: from idio- ‘own, personal’ + -lect as in dialect




definition by Oxford Dictionaries