... in register when talking about a certain event; When talking about school lunches, the first thing he says is "School dinners are completely crap now", this is typical language of a teenager, but he then finishes the paragraph with something quite formal he probably heard from someone else "It won't be our fault if we grow up apathetic and lacking in moral fibre". This is the type of thing you would probably hear from his head teacher and not from Adrian. His goal is to sound intellectual, yet he makes it evident that he is trying too hard and that the language he is using is not completely his. This is the basis for Adrian Mole's idiolect. Sue Townsend uses Adrian's characteristic clichés and changes in register to form his idiolect. When Adrian goes on a trip to see his mother in Sheffield he describes the people on the train ...

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