| sociolect |
| Definition - A dialect that is associated with a particular social class. |
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Etymology - The word was coined by concatenating the combining forms socio and -lect |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1972: "[….] Dialect refers to a set of features delimited geographically; sociolect to a socially distributed set." (J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 300) |