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2007-01-25 10:09:09 · 18 answers · asked by STACEY C 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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orgy................OH baby ya. ~~~~~

2007-01-25 10:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Words that End in Gry
Without a doubt the most common question we receive from visitors to Fun-with-words.com is about the famous "-gry" puzzle, so we've decided to put the story of this curious puzzle on the site. Here it is.
The puzzle is essentially this: There are three English words ending in "-gry". Two are "angry" and "hungry". What is the third one?

There is no other common word ending in "-gry", so how did the puzzle come about? It first appeared in print in 1975.

Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was meagry or aggry (as in "aggry bead"). There are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry" (see below), and these two were in use until fairly recently. However, since there is no longer a real answer to this, modern versions of the puzzle have turned from being puzzles to being riddles. There are perhaps as many as a dozen versions in circulation - each with a different answer!

2007-01-25 10:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by melissa 6 · 3 0

"It's a fraud, it's a fake," says Will Shortz, who is the puzzle editor of the New York Times and the host of a puzzle segment on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (NPR, 11/10/96). The actual truth is that
NO other common English word ends in -gry! It's a trick question -- and the trick, at least in some versions, has been lost.

Thus there are a whole lot of "right answers" that have been proposed, depending on the wording of the puzzle as the person heard it. None of these are THE right answer, because there are so many different, mangled versions of the puzzle. Many people think there must be, though, or even that the version of the puzzle they've heard is the only true version, and its answer the only true answer. This is far from the case. As the puzzle has spread and permutated, there are many separate versions that are purported to be the "true" version and many separate answers purported to be the "true" answer.

2007-01-25 10:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

. 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.

2007-01-25 10:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Hungry, Angry, Meagry, , Aggry.
I hope this helps!

There are three words in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. What is the third word?" The answer then is LANGUAGE.

2007-01-25 10:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by journeythroughlife85 2 · 0 0

Haha...there technically is no answer to this question as all of the other words ending in -gry are obsolete.

2007-01-25 11:32:49 · answer #6 · answered by Charity 2 · 0 0

hungry, angry, and an archaic word (went obsolete a while back, but still) aggry (which means http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aggry ) i forgot the definition, learned the word in english...hope that helps u!

2007-01-25 10:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by KavSha 2 · 0 0

hungry, angry, bangry

2007-01-25 10:57:19 · answer #8 · answered by soawake 2 · 0 0

hungry, angry, scavengry,

2007-01-25 10:16:43 · answer #9 · answered by goodbye 7 · 0 0

Got me, you named two that I know

2007-01-25 10:14:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ogry as in like an ogre. tiggry as in like a tigger

2007-01-25 10:15:54 · answer #11 · answered by Twistedfirestarter 3 · 0 1

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