Hang/hung

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Originally Posted by peter

He was hanged yesterday.
he hanged himself?
He is a hanged man.

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In my humble British English opinion, one could use hung and hanged equally in all of these except the last.

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He was hung yesterday.
He hung himself

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If you click here you'll see examples of "a hanged man" in use.

You could say the 'hanging corpse'. :o

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Originally Posted by tdol

You could say the 'hanging corpse'. :o

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Would that be a corpse that hangs, or a corpse that is hanging?

One still on the gallows

Check this out: http://www.mystae.com/restricted/str...hangedman.html

(It's not what I would have thought "The Hanging Man" refers to.)

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"a hanging man": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search (639 "hits") (In many of the uses the term in no way refers to a human being.)

"the hanging man": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search (1,420 "hits")