I've won a Tony and a Grammy, but for an outsider like me – an American – to be nominated, in such elite company, is a particular honour.
This was a particular honour for the young dancer because it was the first full-length Romeo and Juliet to be produced outside of the Soviet Union.
Or who had scored in the most consecutive seasons at any stage before or after the birth of the Premier League?" As plenty of people emailed to point out, the late Gary Speed has that particular honour.
He is not the Sexiest Man Alive nor the most nominated for more serious awards, but he is the A-list actor most Hollywood studios are itching to work with by dint of this particular honour.
Most countries have ways of honouring distinction (in Sweden, these include diligent reindeer husbandry), but trying to explain our particular honours system to anyone who did not grow up with it is on a par with introducing them to the rules of cricket.
McDowell is second on the European Tour money list but Kaymer heads him by almost €1m (around £874,000) and the 2010 US Open champion knows he has to come up with something spectacular if he is to deny Kaymer that particular honour.
That particular honour goes to no less a writer than André Gide, who turned Swann's Way down for his publishing house precisely because he thought Proust a "snob", and a "social butterfly" who did no more than report on tedious high society events.
That particular honour belongs to baseball's National League in the US, which began in 1876.
Such statements are, by long-standing tradition, made on the particular honour of the member and are accepted by the House without question.
Over the course of his studies at Cambridge Smuts won many academic awards and accolades, culminating, in 1893, with the award of the prestigious George Long prize in Roman Law and Jurisprudence - a particular honour given that the prize was very rarely awarded as the rigorous academic standard required was very rarely met.
