ESPECIALLY OR SPECIALLY?

Especially means ‘Particularly’

Specially means 'for particular purpose'.

Q)  I have brought these flowers, ................ (Specially or Especially?) for you.

 Answers: You should choose ‘Especially’ in this case because the flowers are particularly for your beloved and no one else.

 

Q) I have brought you some .................. (specially/Especially) grown up flowers for you

Answer: You should choose ‘Specially’ in this case because ‘specially’ is used with an adjective’s past participle form. Such as Specially Designed/Trained/Built etc. specially means for a particular purpose, here the purpose is to present the flower to a person.

Now, let me present you with some examples from the book

Specially

•  The stadium was built specially for Olympic Games.
•  The Police use specially-trained dogs to search for drugs.

Especially

•    There’s been a lot of flooding, especially in the south.
•    I especially liked the big balcony.

The core concepts of the Above piece has been derived from 'Common Mistakes at Proficiency' by Julie Moore, Cambridge University Press