It's not that simple, however: most usage guides reserve hanged for people subjected to death, which means if an inanimate object is suspended from a gallows, the correct term is hung. Despised by the voters, he was hung in effigy. A stripped-down version of why we have these two diffe...
And that also includes oral use of terms, not just in writing. E.g. yesterday I watched Judge Judy on a local cable channel. She said that doing something was the person’s “perogative”. She is quite quick to comment if somebody else uses some term or phrase wrongly, and she freque...
Btw, Reagan was correct to use "hung" when he said "I'll be hung in effigy" -- since an effigy is not alive, it can be hung but not hanged. Q: You asked "But what about sung instead of singed?" A: Sung is the past tense of sing -- "A song was sung" or "I sung a ...