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Because I'm that guy: "hanged"
(disclaimer: language is a fluid construct, talk however you want, there's no one "right" way to speak, some of us just enjoy being pedantic assholes)
1 0 ReplyTo (badly) paraphrase Pratchett, "A person is hanged, meat is hung. [...] First he was hanged. Then he was hung."
3 0 ReplyNah hung is right. Matt just took some penis enlargement pills.
2 0 ReplyBecause I'm also that guy: both are correct.
It's true that you should only used hanged to refer to hanging a person, but it's not incorrect to use hung in that case.
Source 1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged
1 0 ReplyDepends if you mean 'he suspended himself from a rope' or 'he comitted suicide'
0 0 ReplyMaybe we should not care how 18th century cowboys pronounced things
1 0 ReplyI don't, I care about the language as it exists today.
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