It's a peculiar thing, when you think about it, that a miserable pun has become as important as the Queen's Speech and The Wizard of Oz.
Some outside observers picked up on this peculiar form of pride – a kind of anti-nationalist nationalism – and gently mocked it: Timothy Garton Ash, for instance, spoke of Deutsche Industrie-Normen – a German industrial standard – in "coming to terms with the past"; others crowned the Germans "world champions in remembrance".
Worshippers reported foul aromas and "a peculiar taste" during services, praising the Lord with a handkerchief pressed to their nostrils.
Nick Clegg has said that David Cameron's "peculiar" plans to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum by the end of 2017 are "condemned to failure".
These methods are not peculiar to the England team.
Then there were her own peculiar wants: her love for Mini Babybels, swimming, BBC nature documentaries and cartoonishly huge sticks.
DH Lawrence perhaps recognised a similar sensation when, in his semi-autobiographical novel, Kangaroo (1923), Lovat – the pseudonym the author used for the book, commented upon a night-time walk in the outback, and felt overwhelmed by its peculiar vibe the land gave off.
A corpse in Australia contends with humidity, intense ultraviolet rays, peculiar soils and geology and a unique array of insects and animals.
But we're finding out that once we miss the chance to recycle plastics, they live on in peculiar and troubling ways.
It is that capacity to place yourself above the law and to make those who have been wronged feel "quite apologetic" that is peculiar to the church.
Burial was the norm; cremation a peculiar foreign custom.
