Dear Pedes,

I can feel that a lot of you are excited about things to come in the following weeks. However, we must not get into any bad habits with our spelling and grammar.

The verb 'to hang' is usually used to indicate that an object is being suspended at the end of a rope. In this case the past tense of 'hang' is 'hung', as in "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care."

I anticipate that we will be using the word 'to hang' with a different meaning: to kill someone by tying a rope around their neck and releasing the support beneath them, usually as a form of execution. In this case the past tense of 'to hang' is 'hanged', as in "Those commie faggots were all hanged, but not before having a fair trial. This is a nation of laws, and not of men."