Hang/hung

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> My understanding of the presciptivist position, and the one I and
> Revere's 1798 report to the Corresponding Secretary of the
> Massachusetts Historical Society of his ride follow, is exemplified
> by the following:
>
> Mark was hanged at the gallows on Cambridge Common* for his
> crime. Â After he was declared dead, his body was taken from the
> gallows to Charlestown, where it was hung in chains for several years.

The _hanged_ vs. _hung_ distinction is another one of those things
that I learned in high school.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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