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From [www.dictionary.com]: "Hang has two forms for the past tense and past participle, hanged and hung. The historically older form hanged is now used exclusively in the sense of causing or putting to death: He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. In the sense of legal execution, hung is also quite common and is standard in all ...
When some grammatical rule became changed or disused, some verbs kept to the old pattern. For example, before the Great Vowel Shift , the verb keep (then pronounced /keːp/, slightly like "cap", or "cape" without the / j / glide ) belonged to a group of verbs whose vowel was shortened in the past tense; this pattern is preserved in the modern ...
Different dictionairies will give you their different views on the subject; Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary, the one most readily nearby, says, with regard to being hanged by the neck until dead: "For both transitive and intransitive senses, the past and past participle hung, as well as hanged, is standard.
The standard past participle of hang is hung. The past participle hanged is reserved for execution by hanging, [56] and sometimes for suicide by hanging, [57] [better source needed] although usage guides differ on the importance of the distinction between hanged and hung. [56] hangar and hanger.
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, didn't get a fair trial.
The New Oxford Dictionary says "hanged" is used for the sentence. Which of course is what PoD means above. Victoria 01:54, 28 June 2013 (UTC) Of course it does. I am not arguing that "hanged, drawn, and quartered" is bad grammar, but that it is a bad article title, ie. it is not a nounal phrase. Neelix 19:16, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...