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idiolect

Flag: gbEnglishOxford New American Dictionary
idiolect /ˈidēəˌlekt, ˈɪdiəˌlɛkt /
▸ noun the speech habits peculiar to a particular person:
in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels “angelicals“.
– ORIGIN 1940s : from idio- ‘own, personal’ + -lect as in dialect.