Q: How do you bite your tongue when the fellow says “hung” instead of “hanged”?
A: Tell him he’s suspended!
Seriously, misusing “hung” isn’t a capital offense, but “hanged” is the preferred past tense for executions. For more about these two troublemakers, see the “Getting the hang of hung” entry on The Grammarphobia blog.
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