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Mohamadreza0 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

special

I wonder if anyone would tell the difference between "special" and 'especial"?
thnks in advance
  

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"Especial" is not an English word (although "especially" is).

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  • "Especial" is not an English word (although "especially" is).
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"Especial" is not an English word (although "especially" is).
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thanks for the reply , but you know if look it up in the dictionary , two forms are easily available
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You're right -- I don't know what I was thinking! "Especial" is so rarely used in American English that it just didn't look right to me -- but it is in the dictionary. Maybe it's more common in British English -- you could certainly get by in the U.S. without ever using it.
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it sounds to me reasonable, thanks
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