Re: [DL] Get yer mind outta the gutter Riel as Harrowed (OT)

["Leybourne, Brian - CLM" <Brian.Leybourne@airnz.co.nz>]

> I don't know how they do things in Australasiasiasiaq (or whatever you
> call it), but here in America, "hung' is the past tense of the verb
> "hang."

No it's not. Not in America or anywhere else.

From the American Heritage dictionary of the English Language:

Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense
of "to put to death by hanging." In the following example hung would be
unacceptable: "Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary
trial". In all other senses of the word, hung is the preferred form as past
tense and past participle.

Brian "Anal and pedantic and not in the least apologetic about it"
Leybourne.

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