“speech habits” is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to behaviors or patterns of speaking such as talking quickly or frequently using filler words (e.g. "Uh, like, um..."). For example, "The coach helped the team develop better speech habits in preparation for their presentations."
In N. Y. the speech habits of New England are gaining influence, he says.
Most recent investigations emphasize the versatility of each person's speech habits according to levels or styles of language usage.
While it retained relatively few Celtic words, the developing language had its vocabulary greatly enriched by Germanic borrowings, and its phonetic development was influenced by Germanic speech habits.
They were attacked on philological grounds by such iconoclasts as Thomas R. Lounsbury; they were reduced to vanity by the unconquerable speech habits of the folk.
In 1925, an Oxford student named Alan Ross noticed that certain speech habits were becoming markers of social class, and he began collecting examples.
The very typeface forces shock on us: while invited to observe a fascinating clash of speech habits between generations, we are not permitted to make our own judgments about racist language.
That men and women habitually "miscommunicate" owing to some notion of direct versus indirect speech-habits is also, as she shows, a useful get-out clause for men, as well as being highly implausible.
As Peter Biskind noted of these rebellious children of privilege, Rafelson and Schneider "affected the speech and habits of truck drivers, and fancied themselves somehow of the street".
He is Jeremy O'Keefe, an American academic who has spent time teaching in Oxford and conveys a transatlantic uncertainty in his speech and habits.
Among other pleasures, they offer a unique form of time travel, immersing us in bygone styles of dress and speech, quaint habits and notions.
Its offenses are slight, couched in minor differences of speech and habit.
