• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      8 hours ago

      to be hanged is when someone is hung from the neck until dead. one of english’s weirdest verb conjugations.

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      20 hours ago

      Nope, it’s hanged. Specifically, hanged means being suspended with the bottom being free. Hung is more like a hung jury, a well hung man, or being hung up on something. It sounds wrong, but hanged is right.