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To: Dick Bachert

Please forgive me for being a jerk, but ... as an English major, I have to correct your use of “hung.” The past-tense of “to hang” (as in the form of execution) is “hanged.”

OK, I’m done. ;-)


91 posted on 05/10/2007 9:12:47 AM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Theo

Thank you.

Yes, I know that and regularly scream at the talking heads on TV when they screw up that — and countless OTHER elements of speech — but wanted to keep my response parallel to the item to which I was responding. Took a little literary license.

My current favorite pet peeve is the stupid filler “going forward.” How one “goes back” without a time machine really befuddles me.

As one of our better educated citizens, you might be interested in the video found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U


92 posted on 05/10/2007 9:28:51 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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