I agree modern USA variant is Ding Dong Ditch, however it couldn’t have always been that as the game predates doorbells. What was dinging and what was dongin for those early trailblazers?
Bells are quite old. Maybe people sometimes targeted houses that used them instead of door knockers or just knocking and called it Ding Dong Ditch back then too! probably not tho.
I agree modern USA variant is Ding Dong Ditch, however it couldn’t have always been that as the game predates doorbells. What was dinging and what was dongin for those early trailblazers?
The name came first, then they invented doorbells to match,
Bells are quite old. Maybe people sometimes targeted houses that used them instead of door knockers or just knocking and called it Ding Dong Ditch back then too! probably not tho.
Door bells are quite old. The ones that go ding-dong not so much.
I’ve lived in the USA for my whole life and only ever heard the dash variant to my memory.
I bet you also call all soda a “cola”.
I live at the crux between “soda pop” and “coke” as generic names for soda.
Of course
I bet you call all fizzy wizzy slurp slurps “soda”
Found the Brit
I want a god damn literacola!
Knock Up the Neighborhood?
I think that’s a different game involving more than a few poor decisions by all parties…