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#111795 09/10/03 09:44 PM
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Hang--
hang on
hang up
hang out
hang of
hang for
hang it
hang dog
hang five
hanging around
hung
well hung
hanger

some like hang up-- have several meanings Hang up your clothes--My mom has a hang up about neatness.--i've been getting crank call, no messages, just hang up's.

and i suspect the people who hang around here can thing of more ways to use hang.



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Oh, yes, Helen! Good one. And hangers-on.


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Glad you think so, Jackie, i'll allow some time for other to get the hang of it.


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Hanging on your every word. But I won't be drawn in this quarter.


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We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.


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Hanged if *I know!


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Hanging on your every word. But I won't be drawn in this quarter.

Sorry, thought you were going on holiday, not being hanged, drawn and quartered!


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Perhaps the difference between hanged and hung is one for Wordwind's list of how grammar has changed?

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you might as well get hanged for a goat as for a sheep, but don't get hung up on it.


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