Word of the Day
for Saturday,
April 6, 2013
Idiolect \ID-ee-uh-lekt\, noun:
a person's individual speech pattern. Compare dialect (def. 1).
Marvin Spevack's
recent Shakespeare
Thesaurus attempts to classify the whole of Shakespeare's
vocabulary in order to reveal Shakespeare's idiolect: the linguistic
system peculiar to Shakespeare."
-- William Shakespeare, introduction by Peter Hobley Davison, "Introduction," The First Quarto of King Richard III, 1996
-- William Shakespeare, introduction by Peter Hobley Davison, "Introduction," The First Quarto of King Richard III, 1996
That Elderly
ambassador...had said "Avice Benner Cho, is it?" with a cadence so
splendidly stilted it had become part of my internal idiolect,
so whenever I introduced myself by my full name, a little is it? trailed the
words in my head, in her voice.
-- China Miéville, Embassytown, 2011
-- China Miéville, Embassytown, 2011
Idiolect is the blend of the Greek idio
+ legein
literally meaning "personal speak."
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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