I'm not a grammarian, but I like this excerpt from Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage:
"The distinction between hanged and hung is not an especially useful one (although a few commentators claim otherwise). It is, however, a simple one and certainly easy to remember. Therein lies its popularity. If you make a point of observing the distinction in your writing, you will not thereby become a better writer, but you will spare yourself the annoyance of being corrected for having done something that is not wrong."
I don't want to carp on about Colbert's rudeness, but I can't imagine Seth Meyers doing something like that: he has become, for me, the best of the bunch in late night chat show hosting. He's very smart, seems astonishingly well-read and well-informed, enthusiastic but not idiotically fan boyish like his lead-in and, best of all, he allows his guests to speak uninterrupted, and when they are less than loquacious he deftly fills the air until the commercial break.
A class act all around. |
