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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Use of the word "hung"

Is there ever a time when the word "hung" may be used instead of "hanged". I am particulalry interested in its context as related to executions.

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This is a common confusion even among natives. This link may help clear some of the confusion. php Pictures can be hung, but people are always hanged.

  • This is a common confusion even among natives.
  • This link may help clear some of the confusion.
  • php Pictures can be hung, but people are always hanged.
  • It's an odd quirk of the English language.
  • Here is a usage note on the word "hang" from the American Heritage Dictionary: Hanged , as a past tense and a past participle of hang , is used in the sense of "to put to death by hanging," as in Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary trial .
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This is a common confusion even among natives. This link may help clear some of the confusion.

http://www.englishrules.com/writing/2005/hanged-or-hung.php

Pictures can be hung, but people are always ha
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On TV's "Hollywood Squares", Paul Lynde's famous definition of 'hung jury' was: all men. He got away with so much!
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Paul Lynde was a bad boy !Emotion: big smile

But at that time, this kind of humor was not taken as offenisve and P.C.

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