A response in not as much avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/sting/

Sting.

Thinking about the word, the first thing I wondered was, what is the past tense of this sucker?  Stang?  Of course not! Because that would be too easy.  Sing, sang, sung;  Ring, rang, rung.  It’s not Stought either – bring, brought, brought.  Or Stinged – ding, dinged, dinged.

Oh, English.  I can’t just blame your spelling system this time.