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>Subject: Re: [lace-chat] As well for a sheep... :)
>My dad always taught us that to remember the right way of saying this you
>said that a man was hanged and a dog was hung
>Liz
I don't know about that, Liz, don't we also say in E
Dear Friends,
I've always used "hang, hung, hung" myself, but someone mentioned "hang"
and its vagaries in a (private) message to me, so I checked my OED...
According to it, it's the *hanged* (regular) past tense version that's
"arachaic" (ie, older)...
When I think about the verb "to hang" in t
My dad always taught us that to remember the right way of saying this you said that a
man was hanged and a dog was hung
Liz
In an email dated Mon, 8 Sep 2003 4:14:13 am GMT, "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> writes:
>I've always used "hang, hung, hung" myself, but someone mentioned
>"ha
On Sunday, Sep 7, 2003, at 23:31 US/Eastern, Helene Gannac wrote:
Since this thread seems to be still running, I just want to add my
"thrupence".
What about the verb to hang, which has got 2 past tenses hanged and
hung, which
mean different things? The original English was to hang, hung(past),
