This is going to make you so MAD! There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". ONE is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word. What is it? _______gry
2006-09-30 09:06:02 · 30 answers · asked by mr_spike432 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Hey, I dont know either!
I just copied and pasted an email sent to me as I was going mad with it........... still none the wiser.......
2006-09-30 09:22:37 · update #1
Here is the riddle in its original form (going back about 20 years):
"Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. 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."
In its proper, original form, the first two sentences have absolutely nothing to do with the question: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore those two sentences. They are there only to throw you off course. (And it worked, didn't it?) What's left is 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."
The key is the phrase "the English language." In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word "language." Get it? "Language" is definitely something that "everyone uses every day"! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would be just another trivia question, not a riddle.
2006-09-30 09:11:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
I searched the net and found a site with this answer apparently the riddle is an old one and has been changed over the years but if you go to the site justriddlesandmore.com/gry you will get the whole riddle and answer (this is just a part of it containing the answer)
OK, now let's take this riddle apart and solve it as a riddle. Remember, that a riddle has a trick with the words or usage of the words. The trick in this puzzle is misdirection. There are words here that are meant to mislead you and they do just that. The first two sentences in the puzzle have nothing to do with the question being asked: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore these two sentences. They are there to mislead and distract you. Works doesn't it??? Now, what is left is the "meat" of the riddle: "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." In the phrase, the English language, the third word is simply the word 'language'. There you have it!! Get it? 'Language' is definitely something everyone uses every day and in the phrase "the English language" is the third word! OK, now you're saying,"That can't be it; too easy!!" But remember what a riddle is and that the "GRY" riddle is a riddle - NOT a trivia question. "Ok", you're saying, "But that is really stupid!" Hey, we didn't write this riddle - but we do believe that we have the solution, stupid or not! We don't have actual statistics, but we can say that the "GRY" riddle has really gotten around over the last twenty years or so and we get MANY requests for the solution. As is the case with riddles, you need to listen or read them carefully before solving and before passing them along. Somehow, the "GRY" riddle got really distorted - hopefully this explanation will help and satisfy all of you who have been racking your brains for the answer!
2006-09-30 16:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language!
2006-09-30 16:09:50 · answer #3 · answered by jcturtle001 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is no stand-alone word ending in "gry"
thats the most popular puzzle ever, theres a word called nugry that ppl use but thats not a real word. its meant for new questioners
2006-09-30 16:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gry! It means small. Either that or onegry. It means alone and unhappy.
2006-10-01 00:25:52 · answer #5 · answered by Hardrock 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gry is a word - its a small unit of measure
2006-09-30 16:10:15 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Fill 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
language.
there are only 3 words in "the english language". what is the third word?
2006-10-01 14:41:52 · answer #7 · answered by fae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, im gonna go out on a limb here, ive had a think and a few checks on your riddle and im gonna say the word you are looking for is.....
angry
2006-09-30 16:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by dopeydora2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could have made this trickier by not completely giving the answer away...
Onegry.
Definition: a state of being alone and unhappy
2006-09-30 16:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by Andy R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea its language, there are 3 words in 'the english language'
1-the
2-english
3-language
2006-09-30 16:20:05 · answer #10 · answered by mssjj87 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋