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Bookmark or Share- 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in use (being the only one used in Bible versions) [and judges pronouncing sentence of death] but was gradually superseded by hung in the general sense, transitive and intransitive, leaving hanged only in the special transitive sense (3) ‘put to death by hanging’, owing probably to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 ...
- What does 'hanged' mean in this context? - English Language & Usage ...The use of "hanged" in this context is entertaining. Up until about a hundred years ago, "I'll be hanged" was a fairly common euphemism for "I'll be damned". It was an effective euphemism since it was obviously possible for the speaker to be literally hanged, and allowed formal uncertainty about the statement (although there was little ...
- word choice - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeI use 'hung' for computers, pictures, and stockings, and 'hanged' for people, except in the phrase 'hung, drawn, and quartered'. – Ron Porter Commented Mar 14, 2011 at 15:59
- Why the "up" in "hang up the phone"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...If you hanged your phone it would be dead. Also, Kidses these days, like I presume you and your friends to be, have a tendency to drop the preposition in formerly phrasal verbs. E.g. the old way of say it is "I went to hang out with my friends", the new way "I went to hang with my friends". –
- What's the difference between 'hanged' and 'hung'?He has hanged on the gallows from dusk. And. The rope has hanged/hung on the gallows / The rope has hanged/hung the man on the gallows. The distinction of weak as a cause of death / strong for an object has found a firm place in folk-linguistics much as the idea that walking under a ladder will bring bad luck.
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