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- Whats the difference between hanged and hung?
The Hanged vs Hung Debate Is the distinction important? It's still commonly found in usage guides, which typically say that the past and the past participle of hang should be hanged only when referring to a person being subjected to death Hung is preferred, at least by people who make a distinction, in almost every circumstance
- Hung vs Hanged: “going to be hung” or “going to be hanged”?
The weak inflection hanged however continued in use (being the only one used in Bible versions) [and judges pronouncing sentence of death] but was gradually superseded by hung in the general sense, transitive and intransitive, leaving hanged only in the special transitive sense (3) ‘put to death by hanging’, owing probably to the retention
- word choice - What is more appropriate — hanged or hung? - English . . .
I would use "hangs" "Gets hanged" is inappropriate and awkward, saying that the software has been executed by hanging, and "gets hung" invokes a slang expression regarding the size of sexual anatomy ("Gets hung up" would avoid this, but "hangs" is still better ) Fun fact: being sentenced to "death by hanging" and "to be hung by the neck until dead" denote different forms of execution "Death
- grammar - To be hung, drawn and quartered, or to be hanged, drawn . . .
Hanged, drawn and quartered was the punishment for traitors, that is, men who committed treason, that is, the violation by a subject of his allegiance to his sovereign or to the state
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I use 'hung' for computers, pictures, and stockings, and 'hanged' for people, except in the phrase 'hung, drawn, and quartered'
- grammar - you might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb . . .
How is the last part of "you might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb" grammatically correct, that is "as for a lamb"? Don't we use the structure "as for a something" in a sentence like "and as for you" (when it comes to you)?
- etymology - Why are clothes “hung” but men “hanged”? - English Language . . .
It is said that clothes can be hung but men are hanged Is this correct, and if so, why?
- What does drawn mean in Hung, drawn and quartered?
This mis-ordering is apparent in the mid-19th century, when the emasculation and evisceration were removed from the punishment (and the hanging was until dead); you were drawn up to the place of execution, hanged till you were dead, then posthumously beheaded and quartered
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