In recent years, I learned that I have been saying “for all intensive purposes”, which is meaningless when I should have been saying “for all intents and purposes”. I have since adopted the correct phrase. You should, also.
Next…
“I could care less”. No. You “couldn’t care less”. Otherwise you are saying that you care a little.
Add yours.
Read them.
Quit saying dumb stuff.
Go.
*stole this from jeepforums, figured everyone could have a field day.
this is improper but it makes more sense.
How come they say Hanged herself, wouldnt it be Hung herself?
Everytime I read a news report it says hanged and It makes me want to punch kittens.
When hang means, as it generally does, “to suspend,” then hung is the correct past-tense and past participial form of the verb: “Yesterday, I hung a picture on the wall”; “I have hung many pictures on many walls.” When hang means “to put to death by hanging,” however, hanged is the correct past-tense and past participial form: “We hanged the horse-thieving varmint yesterday”; “We’ve hanged nigh unto forty horse thieves this year.” Given that hanging has become a fairly infrequent means to a fairly infrequent end, you might think that this is an unimportant distinction. But, because of a colloquial use of hung that we blush bright yellowish green to mention here, you can end up embarrassing yourself if you use hung as an adjective to describe a male historical figure executed by hanging. History records that John Billington was hanged at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1630; whether Mr. Billington was hung, history does not record.