• pirc_lover@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    No it isn’t

    “The past tense of hang in almost all situations is hung. You hung a picture on the wall yesterday, or you hung out at the mall last week. Only use hanged when referring to someone who has been killed by hanging.”

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      1 day ago

      Hanged is specific to someone being killed by hanging, while hung is less specific, but still accurate. Some who hung themself may have done so by the leg, but unless specified it will be assumed that it is by the neck.

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      Only use hanged when referring to someone who has been killed by hanging

      So what’s the problem? Matt was in fact killed by hanging.