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# Really?
Source?
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Tue 13 Jan 2004, 12:05, archived)
# This book
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140514422/026-0167923-5198819

a fantastic source for pedantry of all kinds.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 13 Jan 2004, 12:06, archived)
# I thank you.
You have just spent more of my money.
(Errol, Tue 13 Jan 2004, 12:07, archived)
# Ooh. Will purchase.
My old copy of English Usage for Journalists doesn't even mention the Hanging/hung thing.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Tue 13 Jan 2004, 12:10, archived)
# ...
Hanged is the past-tense and past-participle form of the verb hang meaning "to execute." The convict was hanged.

See... if it's suicide it don't count.
(themanwhofellasleep, Tue 13 Jan 2004, 12:06, archived)
# That does make sense.
Although the world's media doesn't seem to
know about the distinction.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Tue 13 Jan 2004, 12:13, archived)
# I suppose...
...although technically wrong, it has now become the generally accepted form.

Language doesn't stay static after all - in a few years time we'll all be talking in txt and vowels will be entirely redundant.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 13 Jan 2004, 12:20, archived)