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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses a person's active vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. This differs from a dialect, a common set of linguistic characteristics shared among a group of people. The term is etymologically derived from the prefix idio-, from Ancient Greek ἴδιος, ídios, 'own, personal, private, peculiar, separate, distinct'; and -lect, abstracted from dialect,[1] ultimately from Ancient Greek λέγω, légō, 'I speak'. Language consists of sentence constructs, word choices,…

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