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My Junior year of high school, my English teacher was going over some commonly misused words and got on the subject of "hanged" vs. "hung". She said "When a blanket is clipped to a clothesline to dry, it is hung. When I man is executed by noose, he is hanged. Men are hanged. Men are not hung." My classmate raised his hand and... well, Long story short, my classmate got detention.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)
[–] foggy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Horses are hung. Men are hanged."

[–] Kentifer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Huh, I learned it about clothes and men. I like yours better.

[–] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The past tense of hang in almost all situations is hung. You hung a picture on the wall yesterday, or you hung out at the mall last week. Only use hanged when referring to someone who has been killed by hanging.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged

[–] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Did you downvote me for posting a joke?

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

It seems like grammar pedantry knows no bounds. I updooted in retaliation. All things must be balanced.

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know what that is, nor why it chose to collapse on Betelgeuse VII.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm hung like shopping mall Christmas lights on the 1st of June

[–] Goltbrook@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago

covered in cobwebs, confusing the birds and one flick away from total darkness.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dirty, partly broken, and yet still up somehow?

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

Inappropriate for the occasion but quite festive

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Putting the ‘strange’ in ‘getting some strange.’

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

The odds are good when the goods are odd

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hung, witty, at the very least passing knowledge of history. Promising indeed

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

But they said a innocent woman and not an innocent woman, dealbreaker.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hung like a baby. 10 pounds of danglin' fury.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Jesus too, came like that...