What is the difference between “especially” and “specially”?
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Swastik Ray
The words especially and specially have just a hair’s breadth of difference between them. Both can be used to mean “particularly”. Especially tends to be more formal, while specially tends to be more informal. But our words have finer points to them that are worthy of being understood.