The Atomic Word Of The Week Is….

Hang.

I think you know this word.

It’s very common.

But how well do you know it?

For example, do you know all the different things you can hang?

Think about it.

And I’ll tell you the answer right after I tell you about…

MY NOT VERY EXCITING WEEKEND

How was your weekend?

Mine was quiet.

I was supposed to hang out with my English friend on Saturday night.

But when I texted him on Saturday afternoon he confessed, “I overdid it last night.”

Translation: He drank too much on Friday and now he has a hangover and isn’t leaving his apartment.

I guess that’s the price you pay for having English friends…

HANG

So what can you hang?

When you move into a new house and the walls are bare, you can hang some wallpaper and then hang some pictures.

In the winter, when you walk into a restaurant, you can hang your coat on the coatrack.

If it’s nice outside, after you do the laundry, you can hang your clothes out to dry.

And sadly, as we’ve been reading about in the news lately, Iran likes to hang people it calls criminals, but whom we in the West we would call normal citizens.

SOUND SMART

Now here’s something interesting that not even most native speakers know.

There are two past tenses of “to hang.”

What are they?

And which is for a picture?

And which is for a person?

Let me know in the comments.

Then tomorrow we’ll talk about some common expressions with “hang.”

Cheers,
Mr. Vig