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Dear all,

I wonder if I can use 'specially' and 'especially' interchangeably in place of 'particularly.' That is, can I either say 'Specially I want to be a TV reporter' or 'Especially I want to be a TV reporter'?

Best wishes

[Yinglish]

BBC answers your question -- much better than what I can conjure up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv265.shtml

also see:

http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/specially.html

and:

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/specially

Thanks. I learned something myself.