Since, according to the rules of our language, humans are hanged and objects are hung (such as the man was hanged, the picture was hung), wouldn't the correct terminology for a hangover in the past be hanged over? As opposed to the more commonly used hungover?
shareI think you're overthinking things in this case. The difference between hang and hung in this case is one is present tense, and one is past tense. That's just the way I see, interesting question though.
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Hangover is the noun form and is one word.
Hung over is a state of being with a verb and preposition.
I am so hung over. You look hung over.
I have such a hangover. You look like you have a serious hangover.
It's slang so it didnt develop along grammatical guidelines, like a lot of English. Hell, most of the time the phrase "he hung himself" is used on TV and in movies but it should be "he hanged himself" But we don't used "hanged" a lot, so hung sounds more natural. Probably the same thing.
I think it is preference, if it is not wrong. I personally would say "The man was hung over hanged.
Another one is "took" to "had taken".
I had taken that....
I took that.
Even though "took" is used correctly, I still would rather have "had taken".
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