Hung or hanged? Do you know the difference?
Hung is the regular past tense version of hang.
Hanged on the other hand, is only used when indicating a
person is to be put to death by hanging. An act of execution is always hanged.
Things are hung, but people are hanged.
Mork hung his head out of the car window. Dogs will do that.
Mario was sentence to be hanged by the neck until dead after
he was found guilty for the murder of his brother; he cheated the hangman when
he hanged himself in his cell.
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