Last week, ice-hockey and cricket scrapped over this particular honour.
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.
He set up the Institute of Optimum Nutrition in 1984, and as the director of his own institute, it must have been a particular honour for Patrick in 1995 to confer his "diploma in nutritional therapy" upon himself.
While celebrations for Piaf's centenary have been low key this December, France – and the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris in particular – honoured her memory following the 50th anniversary of her death in October 2013.
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.
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.
