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[Edit: appears this isn't so] There can be only one "strangest" case, while there are many "stranger" cases. Because of this, saying "one of the strangest case

• curried_haskell 10y ago
  If it's in common usage, then it is in fact grammatically sensical. The strangest cases can refer to those cases that, as a group, are all stranger than cases outside the group.
• cperciva 10y ago
  "One of the strangest cases" is perfectly grammatical. There is only one "strangest case", but the "strangest cases" can refer to any set such that every case it contains is stranger than every case it does not contain.
• eridius 10y ago
  It's not grammatical nonsense. There can be a number of "strangest cases", either because they're all equally strange, or because you're referring to, say, "the top 10 strangest cases" and simply omitted the number. In common usage, saying "this is one of the strangest cases" generally means that if you were to rank all cases by strangeness, and then pick some arbitrary small number of cases that rank at the top, this case would be a member of that group, and it implies that the speaker has not in fact ranked cases like this but merely believes that this is likely to be true, hence the imprecise language.
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