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LECT

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 250 words | Copyright

LECT. A term in SOCIOLINGUISTICS for a speech variety; it is used relatively little on its own but often occurs in combination, as in idiolect. See ACROLECT, BASILECT, DIALECT, ENGLISH, GRAMMATICALITY, IDIOLECT, MESOLECT, PRIVATE LANGUAGE, SOCIOLECT.

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