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pcernie

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Egg-faced bankers?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8047657.stm

Made me laugh :lol:

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Wed May 13, 2009 3:02 pm

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Re: Egg-faced bankers?


	Gary Keogh, said not wrote: If we didn't live in a tolerant society, the chairman and the rest of the board would be hanging by their necks with piano wire out on the road.

So true, we are too soft. If bankers could be hung for their actions, maybe they would work a little harder and help us all out...

Wed May 13, 2009 4:33 pm

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Re: Egg-faced bankers?

forquare1 wrote:


	Gary Keogh, said not wrote: If we didn't live in a tolerant society, the chairman and the rest of the board would be hanging by their necks with piano wire out on the road.

So true, we are too soft. If bankers could be hung for their actions, maybe they would work a little harder and help us all out...

<pedant> It's hanged, not hung. </pedant>

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Wed May 13, 2009 6:50 pm

forquare1

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Re: Egg-faced bankers?


	Linux_User wrote: <pedant> It's hanged, not hung. </pedant>

I think you'll find you can use either...

Wed May 13, 2009 7:27 pm

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Re: Egg-faced bankers?

forquare1 wrote:


	Linux_User wrote: <pedant> It's hanged, not hung. </pedant>

I think you'll find you can use either...

I think you'll find when you're referring to a person it's "hanged", when it's a picture etc then it's "hung".


	Oxford English Dictionary wrote: — USAGE In modern English hang has two past tense and past participle forms: hanged and hung. Sometime after the 16th century hung replaced the earlier form hanged in general contexts, as in they hung out the washing, while hanged was, as it still is, retained for use in reference to execution by hanging, as in the prisoner was hanged.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/hang?view=uk

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Wed May 13, 2009 7:42 pm

forquare1

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Re: Egg-faced bankers?

Linux_User wrote:

I think you'll find when you're referring to a person it's "hanged", when it's a picture etc then it's "hung".


	Oxford English Dictionary wrote: — USAGE In modern English hang has two past tense and past participle forms: hanged and hung. Sometime after the 16th century hung replaced the earlier form hanged in general contexts, as in they hung out the washing, while hanged was, as it still is, retained for use in reference to execution by hanging, as in the prisoner was hanged.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/hang?view=uk

Well I'll be, all my history teachers, history books, and various TV documentaries have been wrong!

Wed May 13, 2009 8:36 pm

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