hung/hanged

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:10 PM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
> It's hanged except in Blazing Saddles ("They said you was hung." "They was
> right!")

Where it's clearly necessary for the pun.

BTW, what's the difference between appealing to authority and
straight-up prescriptivism?

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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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