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Episode 56: The Weak vs The Strong

The History of English Podcast

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Hanging and Hanging

In old english, one used an object and one didn't. But in past tense, one version was weak and one was strong. So hongan became hanged, or hanged to day, and hon became hung. Some lingwist think that same scenario influenced the word hang as well. Just we had sang and sung and rang and rung, something was think English speakers confused or re created hang and hung.

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