*** Quoting Maureen Goldman to Paul Andinach dated 02-22-98 ***
>  On 02-18-98 Paul Andinach wrote to Jim Buntjer... 
>  
>  JB> þ RM 1.31 2868 þ A lawyer got his client a suspended 
>  JB> sentence...he was hung. 
>  
>  PA>    The word is "hanged". 
>  PA>    Only meat that's already dead is "hung". 
>  
>  "The stockings were hanged by the chimney with care..." 
> ___ 
The word "hanged" is the past tense for "hang" when the word is applied to a 
means of execution. "Hung" is a preferred usage for every other appropriately 
tensed circumstance, but hanged is acceptable, if archaic.
--- T.A.G. 2.7 Standard
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