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| QUOTE (Retriever II @ Jul 16 2005, 12:02 PM) | "Hanged" is generally reserved for execution by hanging. Otherwise it's "hung".
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People in those days weren't very bright; education was ****ty. Therefore, since "ed" is stuck on most words, the great majority of folks who couldn't read or right would have used "hanged", making it commonplace and eventually accepted as standard English.
EDIT: I'm laughing because I used the wrong write
This is how most of the words in English that aren't foreign came into being
This post has been edited by Draco Icebane on Jul 16 2005, 05:22 PM
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