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 #2 (permalink) Sun Sep 21, 2008 14:04 pm hung/hanged for his crime? |
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Hi Cisco
Here is what the American Heritage Dictionary has to say on that topic:
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| Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging,” as in Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary trial. A majority of the Usage Panel objects to hung used in this sense. In all other senses of the word, hung is the preferred form as past tense and past participle, as in I hung my child's picture above my desk. |
Thus, your second sentence is better.
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Sep 21, 2008 16:56 pm hung/hanged for his crime? |
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In my usage:
1.- The murderer was hung for his crime. = they hung him up, but we don't know if he died as a consequence. The intention may not have been to kill him.
2.- The murderer was hanged for his crime. = they hung him up by the neck and he died as a consequence. The intention was to kill him. |
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