To: BobNative
If they are referring to capital punishment, the correct word would be hanged, and not hung.
6 posted on
08/29/2009 12:04:29 PM PDT by
OldSpice
To: OldSpice
If they are referring to capital punishment, the correct word would be hanged, and not hung.
Wasn't the “capital punishment” bit an incidental to the overall action?
I thought the subject person was hung alive and then drawn (entrails removed?) and finally quartered... the capital punishment was an incidental effect.
8 posted on
08/29/2009 12:41:14 PM PDT by
az_gila
(AZ - need less democrats - one Governor down... more to go.)
To: OldSpice
If they are referring to capital punishment, the correct word would be hanged, and not hung. Apparently "hung" is a direct quote from Samuel Pepys' diary.
13 posted on
08/29/2009 2:15:49 PM PDT by
Albion Wilde
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