Talk:especial

Usage note
[https://books.google.es/books?id=18NMAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA312&ots=ykh_Oynd_7&dq=%22Traditionally%2C%20especial%20(%3D%20distinctive%2C%20significant%2C%20peculiar)%20is%20the%20opposite%20of%20ordinary%22&hl=es&pg=PA312#v=onepage&q=%22Traditionally,%20especial%20(=%20distinctive,%20significant,%20peculiar)%20is%20the%20opposite%20of%20ordinary%22&f=false Traditionally, especial (= distinctive, significant, peculiar) is the opposite of ordinary and special (= specific, particular) of general. Increasingly, though, special for all senses. Especial is so rarely used in AmE today that some might term it obsolescent. But it does occasionally appear, most often when modifying a noun whose corresponding adjective would naturally take the adverb especially.] --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:10, 15 August 2021 (UTC)