# Think Thought Thunk? What is the correct past tense and past participle?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-thought-thunk-what-is-the-correct-past-tense-and-past-participle/696692 "2014-08-27T21:55:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-thought-thunk-what-is-the-correct-past-tense-and-past-participle/696692/21 "2014-08-28T14:11:06Z")

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Storiella as she is syung

London: Corvinus Press, 1937. Also a pre-publication fragment from “Work in Progress” (Finnegans Wake). One of 175 copies bound in orange vellum, with an initial letter by Lucia Joyce.

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**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-thought-thunk-what-is-the-correct-past-tense-and-past-participle/696692/22 "2014-08-28T16:12:49Z")

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“[The pitcher wound up and flang](http://iheartquotes.com/fortune/show/the_pitcher_wound_up_and_he_flang_the_ball_at_the_batter_the_batter)…” I have no idea if the attribution of this quote is correct but it’s on the internet so I assume so.

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