hung or hanged

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An animal is hanged and a human is hung right??

but meat is hung??

I dont get it

I always thought that if it was dead originally then it is 'hung'.

If it goes from being alive to being dead, then it is 'hanged'.

human is hanged, everything else is hung

Hanged = act of execution

So you could be hanged then hung!

Yes, I think a traitor could be hanged until dead and then hung from the city walls as a warning to others [macabre]

Execution = hanged
meat = hung
but for some reason it's 'hung drawn and quartered' as in particularly nasty way to be bumped off.

Well, 'hanged drawn and quartered' doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it? It's the double d I think.

Yes, humans are hanged - apart from when they are hung like a donkey!

When people were hung, drawn and quartered, is that because they were still alive when they were taken down from the noose?

This a grim topic, isn't it?

It is ( was, I hope) 'Hanged, drawn and quartered' for the reasons stated ie the victim was alive when it began.

Many people do say 'hung' even when it should have been 'hanged' presumably because it sounds more likely.

And of course one hopes one's husband is well hung as opposed to well hanged.

I think when they were hung drawn and quartered, they weren't hanged, because the fall is meant to break their neck when their hanged, but when they're 'hung' they don't have such a big fall as they dont' want them to die....

err... nope. Definitely 'hanged' though colloquially 'hung'.

Still, it was only done to men. Women got burned at the stake

hanged to go from alive to dead, as consensus (ooh, I've used that twice today!)

hung if its state of living hasn't changed. (pictures, like a donkey, meat etc)

hung, drawn and quatered is techincally incorrect, as the hanging part killed them, then their corspes were drawn on and chopped into 4 (down and then across). the hung part came because of ease of saying it, but offically, the judge would have said Hanged, drawn and quartered.

so, if you killed the animal by hanging, then it was hanged, and if you put it on a hook after it was already dead, then it was hung.

From the depths of my memory:

"Hanged" is for when a human is executed by use of a noose; "hung" is for everything else (meat, pictures, etc.)

"Hung, drawn and quartered" - I've always understood this to be the use of a noose to strangle but not kill, then the person is "drawn", i.e. his abdomen is cut upon and his entrails are removed while he is still alive, then his body is "quartered" by chopping it up for display in different parts of the city.

i couldn't remember whether they were still alive when they were drawn.