language ^_^
2006-11-14 15:22:44
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answer #1
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answered by ettezzil 5
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depends how you look at it
1. 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.
The answer is language.
It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996.
2. "Angry" and "hungry" are two words in the English language that end in "-gry". "What" is the third word. The word is something that everyone uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
The answer is what.
The question states that "what" is the third word, then it asks for the third word. Again this version needs to be spoken to be effective.
3. There are three words in English that end in "gree." The first two are "angry" and "hungry," and if you've listened closely you'll agree that I've told you the third one.
The answer is agree.
It is a phonetic version of the riddle, asking for words that end in the sound "gree," but tricks people into thinking about the letters g-r-y by giving the two examples.
4. There are three words in the English language that end in the letters g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third word?
The answer is energy.
The question asks for a word ending with the three letters g-r-y, but does not stipulate that they must be in that order.
5. There are at least three words in the English language that end in g or y. One of them is "hungry," and another one is "angry." There is a third word, a short one, which you probably say every day. If you are listening carefully to everything I say, you just heard me say it three times. What is it?
The answer is say.
The question must be said in such a way that the word "or" sounds like the letter "r". Once more, to be effective it is crucial that this version is spoken rather than printed. This version is first known to have appeared in 1997.
6. There are three words in the English language that end in "-gry." Two words that end in "-gry" are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third word means, and everyone uses them every day. If you listened very carefully, I have already stated to you what the third word is. What are the three words that solve this riddle?
The answer is I am hungry.
The question asks for three words that end in "-gry", but does not say that they each must end in "-gry."
7. 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 every day. And if you listened carefully I've given you the third word, what is it?
The answer is three.
It is the third word in the question, and the rest of the question is irrelevant: a red herring designed to put the solver off.
8. There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in "-gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it?
This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:
affect-hungryfire-angryMacLoingrySeagry
aggryGagrymad-angryself-angry
Agrygirl-hungrymad-hungryselfe-angry
ahungrygonagrymagrysensation-hungry
air-hungrygrymalgrysex-angry
anhungryhaegryman-hungrysex-hungry
Badagryhalf-angrymanagryShchigry
Ballingryhangrymannagryshiggry
begryheart-angryMargryShtchigry
bewgryheart-hungrymaugrysight-hungry
boroughmongryhigry pigrymawgryskugry
bowgryhogrymeagrySygry
braggryhogrymogrymeat-hungryTangry
BugryhongrymenagryTchangry
Chockpugryhound-hungrymessagryTchigry
Cogryhoungrymusic-hungrytear-angry
cony-gryhuggrymuggrynangryth'angry
conyngryhund-hungryoverangrytike-hungry
cottagryHungry BungryPelegryTingry
CroftangryhwngryPingrytoggry
diamond-hungryiggryPodagryulgry
dog-hungryJagryPongryunangry
dogge-hungryjob-hungrypottingryvergry
Dshagrykaingrypower-hungryVigry
Dzagryland-hungryprofit-hungryvngry
eard-hungryLangrypuggrywar-hungry
Echanuggryleather-hungrypugryWigry
Egryledderhungryred-angrywind-hungry
euer-angrylife-hungryrungryyeard-hungry
ever-angryLisnagryscavengryyird-hungry
fenegrylosengrySchtschigryYmagry
2006-11-14 15:00:02
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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This riddle is sooooo old and so often asked that Wikipedia has a great article on the history of this riddle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gry
Here's what is says in brief. Also, it gives a list of 130 obsolete or compound words ending in gry
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 0-87779-201-1) and the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-861186-2) 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.
This puzzle has no good answer, yet it has become the most frequently asked word puzzle. The regular readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles have coined the word "nugry" to describe a (presumably) new reader who posts a frequently asked question.
2006-11-14 14:52:09
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answer #3
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answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7
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When you state the riddle right, the answer is 'language' as in 'there are three words in 'the English language', what is the third word?... the rest of the riddle is a red herring.
2006-11-14 14:47:39
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answer #4
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answered by Madkins007 7
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The word is Gry its an old riddle
2006-11-14 14:45:35
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answer #5
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answered by Charliee[[JB]]<33 2
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The finest provider I can participate in for the American persons is to announce right here that the gry query is without doubt one of the so much outrageous and time-losing linguistic hoaxes in our country's historical past. The poser slithered onto the American scene on a New York TV quiz exhibit, in early 1975. I've attempted to bury gry earlier than, but it surely maintains emerging, like a few indignant, hungry monstrosity from Tales From the Crypt. The reply to the infernal query is that there's no reply, no less than no pleasant reply. I endorse any individual who occurs at the indignant+hungry+? poser to quit burning time and to transport directly to a extra efficient recreation, like counting the quantity of angels at the head of a pin or looking forward to a lessen in our estate taxes. In unabridged dictionaries repose no less than 50 gry phrases moreover to indignant and hungry, and each one in every of them is both a variation spelling, as in augry for augury, begry for beggary, and bewgry for buggery, or ridiculously difficult to understand, as in anhungry, an out of date synonym for hungry; aggry, a type of variegated glass bead so much in use within the Gold Coast of West Africa; puggry, a Hindu shawl wrapped across the helmet or hat and trailing down the again to preserve the sizzling solar off one's neck; or gry, a medieval unit of dimension equaling one-10th of a line. There are people who contend that the way to the gry poser is proper in entrance of our eyes. All we ought to do is cognizance at the 3rd and fourth sentences in a single variation of the riddle: "Think of 3 phrases finishing in gry. Angry and hungry are 2 of them. There are handiest 3 phrases within the English language. What is the 3rd phrase? The phrase is anything all people makes use of everyday. If you've got listened cautiously, I have already advised you what it's." The 3rd phrase within the English language is, of path, language, that's obviously anything we use everyday. The complete trade approximately phrases finishing in gry is only a smoke reveal. Nonsense. Humbug. Hogwash. Tripe. Flapdoodle. Folderol. Balderdash. Baloney. This spin at the poser offers linguistic chicanery a foul title.The constitution of this announcement is rickety, and the English language isn't surrounded by means of citation marks. The 1975 variation of the assignment and the ones for 2 many years after don't comprise the There are 3 phrases within the English language sentence. What we've here's a submit hoc hoax. A a lot more difficult and humane puzzle of this style is "Name a usual phrase, except huge, stupendous, and horrendous, that leads to dous." At least 32 extra -dous phrases repose in quite a lot of dictionaries: apodous, antropodous, blizzardous, cogitabundous, decapodous, frondous, gastropodous, heteropodous, hybridous, iodous, isopodous, jeopardous, lagopodous, lignipodous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, nodous, octapodous, palladous, paludous, pudendous, repandous, rhodous, sauropodous, staganopodous, tetrapodous, thamphipodous, tylopodous, vanadous, and voudous. But those are arcane examples. The fourth usual phrase is (and be aware the alteration in strain) . . . damaging. Caveat Scriptor: Perpetuating the -gry puzzle may also be damaging to our country's wellbeing. Now that you've got learn this column, you'll spend some time on extra valuable tasks -- like getting able for the weekend.
2016-09-01 12:43:36
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answer #6
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answered by capel 4
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The answer is "energy." The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters.
2006-11-14 14:47:26
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answer #7
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answered by Walking_Jello 3
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Wait i just figured out its Language!!
2006-11-14 14:43:29
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answer #8
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answered by Brian 4
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language
2006-11-14 14:43:53
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answer #9
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answered by iamigloo 6
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I agree with Madkins007
2006-11-14 14:48:03
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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