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   idiolect

   /ˈɪdɪəlɛkt/

   noun

   • 1. the speech habits peculiar to a particular person: "in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels ‘angelicals’"

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

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • I

     1

   • D

     2

   • I

     1

   • O

     1

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   • C

     3

   • T

     1

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