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?
2007-05-15 13:32:49 · 12 answers · asked by Martha Deacon 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
"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."
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!
By the way, there really are words in the English language that end in -GRY. However, they are definitely obscure and to most of us unknown and rarely used. When have you used bowgry, hogry, hangry or aggry in everyday circumstances? (Remember the riddle clearly states that the answer is something used every day by everyone.) So forget about using any of those obscure words! Instead, start repeating the riddle in its correct version and be happy that you now know the solution!
2007-05-15 13:38:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
This version is usually stated with the word "one" capitalized, which is a hint at the solution:
There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." The first ONE is "hungry," the second is "angry," and the third everyONE uses everyday. If you have read this carefully I have given a clue.
THE ANSWER IS SUPPOSEDLY "one," which is the third "one." Probably because this answer does not make much sense, this version has a variant which contains more instances of the capitalized word "one." The idea is that the capitalized "one" is a hint for the letter a, which when prefixed to the sound "gree" yields the answer word "agree."
Idk. good luck
2007-05-15 20:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by Ann 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the answer is language
or are you looking for the word gry
Actually, many words end in -gry, including gry itself, although all but angry and hungry are rare, foreign, obscure or obsolete
gry comes from Greek and means "a trifle, a very small amount, a very short line". In the latter sense it has been used as an actual unit of measurement
2007-05-15 21:06:22 · answer #3 · answered by theresa t 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When you are hungry does your body say to you "I am hungry!". I think it does. I think that everybody's body says that every day and I think that that is the answer to the riddle.
"I am hungry" fits all of the clues:
3 words ending with g-r-y
already heard the third word
every body says every day
every body understands what they mean.
English language
2007-05-15 20:46:09 · answer #4 · answered by Koala Bear 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer is THREE. You see, remember? "IVE GIVEN YOU THE WORD," and you also said Whats the third word? the third word of the riddle is THREE. and you see angry-----angree. hungry--------hungree. and three? they are all eeeeeee.
2007-05-15 21:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anon. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Already answered...............3 words the
english
language
2007-05-15 20:55:20 · answer #6 · answered by Sangy . 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer is three...the third word in the riddle....
2007-05-15 20:37:01 · answer #7 · answered by bobcam1 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
noticed that ONE is repeated many times in this question.
So I think is a. therefore it is agree.
2007-05-15 20:53:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you got me stumped
2007-05-15 20:57:35 · answer #9 · answered by Maria 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea
2007-05-15 20:53:13 · answer #10 · answered by collegegyrl06 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋