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Daka - this is gonna cause an argument

I think the correct term is hanged not hung.

I think the correct term is hanged not hung.

No argument Paula! I stand correctly corrected. I spent too many years in North America where they don't speak as correctly and I picked up many bad habits, verbal and otherwise. But at least they drive on the correct side of the road.
(Maybe now I have started an argument!?)

Thanks

daka

Daka, the way you worded your story there sounds like it should be a folk song or something. Especially with that last line, "I didn't know what lynching was until I visited Galway once." Hahaha. Anyway, I know it sounds strange to hear that hangings actually occur as a form of capital punishment. Does anybody know what other countries (or even American states) have strange types of capital punishment that have not been abolished? I know back east in some New England states that death by firing squad is still "in the books," as they say, but of course not necessarily used. Whatever happened to being drawn and quartered? Is that still around?

Sorry Daka I am not normally with the grammer police but that is one thing that always stuck in my head about the hanged -v- hung. Because it seemed so strange.

In England Jason you can still potentially be hanged for treason or arson in her majesty's dockyards. I think that is still on the book. BUt that is not going to happen.

Albert Pierrepoint was our most famous hangman I think he got it off to a fine art.

Sorry Daka I am not normally with the grammer police

No apology necessary, Paula. I enjoy this forum for many reasons:

- I learn loads about LEONARD
- I receive encouragement re: guitar playing, poetry, philosophy, psychology, spirituality
- I meet lovely people in this little cyber-world
- I open my mouth and often stand corrected, and, more importantly, humbled, and this is a very good thing for this monk ("who has miles to drive")

daka

hydriot wrote:What that woman did to Leonard so angers me that I am planning to have a button made which says simply 'Lynch Kelley', with a hangman's noose behind.

I really don't think that is anyone's business except those concerned.
How would you like your finances etc being openly discussed on the Internet...

Has anyone bagged "The Came so Far for Booty Tour"?

It's all yours, David.


~ Lizzy

"You Know Who I Am" would be perfect I think
I personally have already christened it "Please Dont Pass Me By" for myself!

I really do want him to recite some poetry as well though, after reading the Book of Longing, I really want him to read those poems out loud with that indescribable voice he has.

Have I posted this already? (it's disappeared)

Anyway, my suggestion was the

Aren't you tired yet?

tour

We use the word lynch here in the context of "lynch mobs," which evokes KKK members or just groups of hating and racially-prejudiced whites in the South [the "Old South"] of the U.S. back in the first half of the 20th century. They hung black men from trees with ropes. "Lynching" was also, I believe, an 'Old West' term referring to cowboys's use of trees and ropes to hang the outlaws... and probably vice versa.


~ Lizzy

I always thought it was funny watching Jerry Falwell on TBN saying he lived in Lynchburg, West Virginia.

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daka wrote:No argument Paula! I stand correctly corrected. I spent too many years in North America where they don't speak as correctly and I picked up many bad habits, verbal and otherwise.

HEYYY!!!!! What a bunch of swashbuckling hogwash.

As a matter of rumour, I have heard it told that in North America we speak more proper English than they do in England. So stuff that in your hat and smoke it, bub.

ps. I used to be the Grammar Nazi. Luckily, Paula, my successor, took admirably to the job while I was vacationing in Thailand last Fall, and I promoted her to full time and retired from it. They don't speak very good English in Thailand, btw. Thank you Paula, but I must warn you once again what a thankless (except in Daka's case) and exhausting job it is.

Manna I have put in for early retirement from the post (is there a pension?) bearing in mind my grammer is often much less than perfect it would be a case of pot calling kettle. I don't want to be a hanging judge!