2007-12-23 11:39:26 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Hanged is for people.
Hung is for pictures.
That's the way I was taught in J-School! :)
EDIT: However, IMHO, it sounds just as bad as he "pleaded" guilty -- instead of plead.
2007-12-23 11:41:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Hanged.
2007-12-23 11:42:16 · answer #2 · answered by Chichiri 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Aunty Em is right. Hanged is the traditional correct English. However, you're likely to hear hung as often as not these days, and as a card carrying English teacher, I can tell you that eventually, the "majority rules" clause is going to kick in and hung will become the standard. Languages change very slowly, but they do change.
2007-12-23 11:43:39 · answer #3 · answered by texasjewboy12 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The conjugation of the verb "to hang" is hanging, hanged, hung. For example, one would say "He is hanging from the limb" "He was hanged this morning." "He has hung there ever since."
2007-12-23 11:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
With the exception of a jury (hung jury), people are hanged; everything else is hung
2007-12-23 11:44:03 · answer #5 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think that hanged is when you're killed and hung is for anything else. I'm not positive but that's what I would think.
2007-12-23 11:42:52 · answer #6 · answered by soccergirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cowboy was HANGED for stealing the cattle.
The cowboy HUNG on to the rope to keep from falling.
Does that help?
2007-12-23 11:42:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hanged for a person being executed, hung for anything else.
2007-12-23 11:41:37 · answer #8 · answered by Somebody else 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although he was well hung they still hanged him
2007-12-23 11:47:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's 'hanged.' I'm not sure why 'hung' isn't used.
2007-12-23 11:44:06 · answer #10 · answered by Chantal G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was hung is the way we say it in Scotland,hanged doesn't sound right
2007-12-23 11:43:54 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋