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Is it just me, or has the past tense become unpopular? Or, as the dictionary puts it

Usage Note: Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging,” as in Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary trial. A majority of the Usage Panel objects to hung used in this sense. In all other senses of the word, hung is the preferred form as past tense and past participle, as in I hung my child's picture above my desk.

I've observed other instances where it appears that the past tense is shifting, in both spelling and pronunciation. Either that, or the copy editors at major publications are incompetent.

9:58:16 AM # Google It!
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