Forensic linguists, recognizing that no two people use language in exactly the same way, will examine the idiolect of an extortion letter to determine authorship.
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Idiolect
/ˈɪd.i.əʊ̯.lɛkt/
Synonyms for "idiolect" (6 found)
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Noun(2 words)
falalinguistic style
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Noun(1 words)
personal talking style
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Noun(3 words)
speech habitspeech patterntalking style
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The surveillance agency found him by spotting his idiolect on an Internet forum.
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Tom has a very distinct idiolect.
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"I've never seen that word before. Are you sure it's French?" "Oh, that's just Tom's idiolect. He likes to come up with his own way of saying things, usually based on his experience with other languages."
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