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Re: Does the world need another post abo

To: MLishego@aol.com
Subject: Re: Does the world need another post abo
From: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:16:33 EDT
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 08:31:43 -0400 (EDT) MLishego@aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 97-08-19 18:25:58 EDT, aramm@concentric.net (Andy 
>Ramm)
>writes:
>
><< And then, in a similar Swedish vein, >>
>Don't tell me that you're prejudiced against Swedes, are you?  This 
>type of
>offense is punishable by removing your life by suspending you from a 
>wooden
>frame by your neck.  (I couldn't say that you'd be hung..._THAT_ might 
>be
>offensive to some of our listers.)   8-)
>~Mike Lishego  
>
 To the grammarians, it is. A person is "hanged by the neck until dead,"
though no one seems to know why the useage is "hanged" and not "hung" for
rope-enabled executions. 
Bob

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