To expect people not to use the word hung when they mean hanged.

[cushioncover]

Ok, I know IABU, and I'm no grammar queen myself but I've read this 4 times today and I just had to rant about it! There!

[Dinosaur]

I found several refs to "hung by the neck".

[sweetboy]

I haven't read the whole thread so I may be repeating a previous post. I would like to add "It doesn't notice..." This is said of an inanimate object such as a spot on your face; instead of "It doesn't really show..." or something similar!

[cushioncover]

The extract states that in 1948 the wording changed from, 'suffer death by hanging' to 'be hanged by the neck until dead'.

Sorry, my link doesn't seem to work.

[Ellbell]

LOL Threadworm. I believe that the media are to blame.

[Dinosaur]

A very recent change then.

The refs I found were older than that, I think.

Anyway, people with an obsessive interest in judicial murder give me the creeps, so I'm not googling any more!

[Threadworm]

And if lots of clairvoyants set up a single newspaper, would it be a media's medium?

[frogs]

Dino, might there be a tense issue there? "I sentence you to be hung..." but "he was hanged"? No evidence for this btw, just hypothesising. Have looked up shorter OED, but is not conclusive, just cites 'hanged' as archaic form of the pple, wrt execution.

[Dinosaur]

Possibly...

[RibenaBerry]

Right, I have a question.

I was looking at an online shop that sold Bra's. My initial thought was, "oh, can't shop here then". However, is that actually correct, given that bra is a contraction of brassiere?

Mind you, I don't think that they were that clever. It said Bras on all the other brand pages!

[StealthPolarBear]

I never use an apostrophe for contractions
CD's is very common but surely if it indicates missing letters it should be C'D's?

[RibenaBerry]

My argument was slightly different: it was that bra has become a word in its own right. It's similar to the fact that I only know one person who writes 'phone (as in "Sarah 'phoned"), which of course is a contraction.

Had never thought that about CD's....

[puff]

I always say my mother hung herself.

I don't like to think of her executing herself and prefer to think she was dead already iyswim.

Meat is hung.

A man is hanged.

[ElsieSnuffins]

"at all"

As in, "Would you like a drink at all?"

Meaning what? "Would you even consider having a drink?"

[Dinosaur]

puff