I have seen here that there are two words in the English language that end with 'gry', hungry, and angry.

Question

For the life of me I can't remember the third, or is it a trick question?

Answer 1

> It is a trick question...
>"There are three words in the English language that end with 'gry'. Two of these are angry and hungry. The third word is a very common word, and you use it often. If you have read what I have told you, you will see that I have given you the third word. What is the third word? Think very carefully."

"Three, the question has nothing to do with angry, hungry, or any of the many other obscure words that end in 'gry', it is a simple question asking you what the third word in the sentence is. As you take tests, remember this."

Altho some say that the answer is the word aggry a foriegn word meaning a burial bead.....

Answer 2

The -Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than "angry" and "hungry," that ends with the letters "gry." Aside from words derived from "angry" and "hungry," there is no stand-alone word ending in "gry" that is in current usage. Both Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2002, ISBN 0877792011) and the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0198611862) contain the phrase "aggry bead." To find a third word ending in "gry" that is not part of a phrase, you must turn to obsolete words or personal or place names. A list of 130 of these is given at the end of this article.

So, basically, this puzzle has no good answer. Yet it has become the most frequently asked word puzzle. It is so common that it is a standing joke [1] on the Stumpers reference librarian list server [2] that it's time to change your car's oil when it is asked anew. The regular readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles [3] coined the word "nugry" [4] to describe a (presumably) new reader who posts a frequently asked question.

Answer 3

It's a trick question. The sentence you mention is only the first part of the original riddle and has absolutely nothing to do with it. So, ignore it. It is only to throw you off course.
Then comes the actual riddle itself: "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
Do you know the answer? No? Let me write it differently: There are only three words in "THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE". What is the third word?
Well? Of course: The third word is LANGUAGE!
In the three word phrase "the English language", the third word is simply the word "language."

Answer 4

not sure...kinda like trying to rhyme purple with something or orange with something. just doesn't work! at www.m-w.com i found the word "anhungry." i don't know what it means, but it's in the dictionary! hope this helps for the 10 points!

Answer 5

it's a trick question.