What is the past tense of ding?

[Shell Beau]

The bell dings.
The bell is dinging.
The bell just _______ ?

[JTG of the PRB]

1. Dinged?

That one sounds right to my ear, but I'm not sure. :shrug:

[Orrex]

2. Dought

[flvegan]

3. Dinged. Just like with a car.

You ding a car by opening your door into the one next to you. If that happened to you, your car got dinged.

[Shell Beau]

6. See that sounds right, but the bell just dinged is sounding so weird.

But that has to be right. It surely can't be ding, dang and dung.

[Radical Activist]

4. dang

[leftyclimber]

5. Dung.

Duh.

:silly:

[Lil Missy]

7. donged?

[Danger Mouse]

8. dong. huh huh huh.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Dang.

:P

[ElboRuum]

10. came off its hinge and smashed through the building.

[PBS Poll-435]

11. Dingyed

:hellifIknow:

:P

[krispos42]

12. Hmmm... I only use "ding" as a noun

As in "there's a ding in this car's fender"

I usually use "ring".

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Rama lama

[madeline_con]

14. dang. LOL

[Systematic Chaos]

15. Ding-a-dang donged its dang-a-long ling-long?

[JeffR]

19. Dammit, dammit, dammit

Didn't see your response before I posted...!

[Systematic Chaos]

21. I thought of it first, but you got it right.

:hi:

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Donged?

Danged? Dinged?

[Phredicles]

17. Doinked.

[JeffR]

18. ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long... of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrVzOaK6YXE

[southerncrone]

20. Dinged.

Dong........uh, you know that isn't right.
Dung........just a pile.

[City of Mills]

22. Ring rang rung, ding dang dung.

Sing sang sung.

[Robb]

23. Bat. nt

[peekaloo]

24. what's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung.

I finally get that joke. :dunce:

[av8rdave]

25. Danged

[Symarip]

26. Long Duck

Donged