Is it grammatically correct to write (property) is idiosyncratic to (object)
in the same way that one could write (property) is unique to (object)
?
For example
This feature is idiosyncratic to the Apple Macintosh.
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Is it grammatically correct to write (property) is idiosyncratic to (object)
in the same way that one could write (property) is unique to (object)
?
For example
This feature is idiosyncratic to the Apple Macintosh.
Best Answer
It seems so. The Oxford English Dictionary has this 2002 citation from the ‘Atlanta Journal and Constitution’:
It may not, however, be common. The Corpus of Contemporary American English has only 16 instances, and the British National Corpus, 6.