I was told there are only three words in the English language that end in -gry...angry, hungry, and what else?
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A# 1\n"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."\n\nIn its 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. (Worked, didn't it?)\n\nWhat'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."\n\nThe key is the phrase "the English language." In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word "language." "Language" is definitely something that "everyone uses every day"! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would just be another trivia question, and not a riddle.\n\n\n\nA# 2 (Let me add question here as well as the answer is from the question)\nThe GRY riddle\n\nAngry and Hungry are two words ending in 'gry"\nThere are three words, (Using popular terminology) \nin the English Language , that end in "GRY". \n.\nWhat is the third word? \nThe word is something that everyone uses every day. \nIf you have listened carefully, \nI have already told you what it is. \n\n>> Answer is terminology. (It's the third word ending in gry. Usin(g) popula(r) teminolog(y)
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This would have driven me crazy EXCEPT that you wrote it wrong, whoever posted this! this is how it REALLY GOES!!!!! \n\nThink of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two. 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. \n\nAn the answer well thats an easy one......the first 2 sentences are obsolete, the 3rd word in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is LANGUAGE! thats the correct VERSION of this riddle! GET IT RIGHT. I copy this from another page!
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More words other than angry and hungry ending with gry.\n\nPuggry\nn. 1. A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun.\nA blue-gray felt hat with a gold puggaree.\n- Kipling.\n\nAggry\na. 1. Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.\n\nBadagry \nBadagry is a coastal town in South West Nigeria, lying between Lagos and the border with Benin.\n\n\nThe 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:\n\naffect-hungry, fire-angry, MacLoingry, Seagry, \naggry, Gagry, mad-angry, self-angry, \nAgry, girl-hungry, mad-hungry, selfe-angry, \nahungry, gonagry, magry, sensation-hungry, \nair-hungry, gry, malgry, sex-angry, \nanhungry, haegry, man-hungry, sex-hungry, \nBadagry, half-angry, managry, Shchigry, \nBallingry, hangry, mannagry, shiggry,\nbegry, heart-angry, Margry Shtchigry, \nbewgry, heart-hungry, maugry sight-hungry, \nboroughmongry, higry, pigry, mawgry, skugry, \nbowgry, hogry, meagry, Sygry, \nbraggry, hogrymogry, meat-hungry, Tangry, \nBugry, hongry, menagry, Tchangry, \nChockpugry, hound-hungry, messagry, Tchigry, \nCogry, houngry, music-hungry, tear-angry, \ncony-gry, huggrymuggry, nangry, th'angry, \nconyngry, hund-hungry, overangry, tike-hungry, \ncottagry, Hungry, Bungry, Pelegry, Tingry, \nCroftangry, hwngry, Pingry, toggry, \ndiamond-hungry, iggry, Podagry, ulgry, \ndog-hungry, Jagry, Pongry, unangry, \ndogge-hungry, job-hungry, pottingry, vergry, \nDshagry, kaingry, power-hungry, Vigry, \nDzagry, land-hungry, profit-hungry, vngry, \neard-hungry, Langry, puggry, war-hungry, \nEchanuggry, leather-hungry, pugry, Wigry, \nEgry, ledderhungry, red-angry, wind-hungry, \neuer-angry, life-hungry, rungry, yeard-hungry, \never-angry, Lisnagry, scavengry, yird-hungry, \nfenegry, losengry, Schtschigry, Ymagry\nhttp://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html\nSource(s):\nhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/Puggry\nhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/aggry\nhttp://dict.die.net/puggry/\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Puggry\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aggry\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/aggry?method=22\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/badagry?method=8
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This is an old riddle that's been messed up. The answer to the original riddle is "language", but the way that it's been told has been screwed up. \n\n"There are three words in the English language." is how it should start. Then the "gry" comes into play as a 'red herring' to throw you off. Everyone uses language everyday, and it's the third word in "the English language".\n\nHope this helps.
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this is a whole riddle and ur missing most of it\n\nThe puzzle is essentially this: \n\nThere are three English words ending in "-gry". Two are "angry" and "hungry". What is the third one?\n\ncheck out the link below it explains this riddle in full detail.. this is a trick question there are only 2 recognised words ending in gry and thats angry and hungry!
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There is no other word!\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html\n\n\nGRRRRR . . . I mean -gry.\n\nA question frequently asked of reference librarians, word mavens, etc., is\n\n    "There are three words in the English language that\n    end in -gry. One is hungry and one is angry;\n    what is the third?"\n\nHere is a picture of a reference librarian who has heard this question one time too many:\n\n(Not really. Click on the painting to find out more about the artist.)\n\nActually, many words end in -gry, including gry itself, although all but angry and hungry are rare, foreign, obscure or obsolete.The most common "answers" are aggry, a burial bead from Ghana, puggry, a scarf worn around the neck in India to protect the head from the sun, and anhungry, an obsolete form of hungry that was used once in one of Shakespeare's less-popular plays (Coriolanus, Act I, Scene I, line 209); this association with the Bard is enough to earn it a place in Merriam-Webster's Third New International (unabridged)Dictionary of the English Language.\n"But that can't be the answer," you groan. No. It's not. There is no answer.\nThe puzzle is WRONG. "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\nNO other common English word ends in -gry! It's a trick question -- and the trick, at least in some versions, has been lost. Word-puzzle fans and reference librarians have been trying for years to track the question's history to find the original answer. But to do that we need to know what the original question was. And there are several different versions in circulation purporting to be the original.\n\nA very early version, found in an old book by a member of the Stumpers list, goes like this:\n\n    "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."\n\n    The next page of the book gave this answer:\n\n    "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."\n\nThe full text of the e-mail containing this version is quoted at the bottom of this page.\n\nAs asked on the Bob Grant radio show (New York City) in 1975, which many experts believe to be the earliest documented version, it went:\n\n    "There are only 3 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?"\n\n(Several sources say this was "taken from an old book", which leaves open the question of whether it was from the same book referred to in the e-mail above, or whether there were already multiple forms of the puzzle going around.)\n\nAccording to Ross Eckler of Word Ways magazine, while there are "nearly one hundred" words ending in -gry, none of them are common. But only one of them (besides angry and hungry) is an adjective, and that is meagry, a word found in the Oxford English Dictionary which means "meager." So meagry would seem to answer the question, at least in this form.\n\nYet another version that many believe is the original, "right" form of the question, goes thus:\n\n    "Two words that end in -gry are 'angry' and 'hungry'. There are three\n    words in the English language. What is the third word? It's a common word\n    that everyone knows."\n\nIn this case, the answer is the third word in the phras
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It's been years, but I've heard a different variation.  The one I heard (from my mother) included, "Had plenty" vs "You caught twenty?"  and "Ate sufficient" instead of "Dined sufficient."  It seems like there was a third miscommunication in the poem, but I can't remember what it was.\n\nDo these alternative phrases give you anything new to search with?\n\nI did find the site below, but it is a long story (copyright 2005), not an old poem.
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New puzzle: Three words.\n\nY_u ~  nee_ ~  Je_e_!
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dr shorty, VA Girl and Nancy Kay are on the right track.\n\nWhat happens is this:  when you shorten "refrigerator" to the one-syllable "fridge" you move the "g" from the beginning of a syllable (re-fri-ger...) to the END of one.\n\nIn English, g is often "soft" (sounding  like "j") at the beginning of a syllable, before e, i or y (germ, "giraffe, gyrate).  \n\nBut at the END of a syllable/word it doesn't quite work that way.  G all by itself at the end is always treated as "hard" --as in rig, bag...\n\nOR when you DO find a "soft g" sound closing a word it is followed by e, AND the preceding vowel is LONG.   For example:  age, page, etc.\n\nSo, by English spelling conventions, "frig" would rhyme with "rig" and "frige" would rhyme with "OBLIGE" \n\nThe way English usually solves this problem -- when there is a g at the end of a syllable/word after a SHORT vowel, you write in the "d" --to represent a sound which is already actually part of the 'soft g sound'.    There are many examples of this:  badge, ridge, ledge, lodge, budge\n\n(If the adding of a D seems odd, notice that j/soft g is actually not one sound, but a combination of two:  d + 'zh';  a related sound, only not using the voice is the combination t + sh, which we commonly represent with "ch".  'zh', if it looks odd, is simply the "voiced" version of "sh". It is the sound made by the Z in "azure")\n\nActually, I believe the REAL problem here stems from the different ORIGINS of two sets of words.  The words ending with "-dge" are generally of Old English lineage, whereas the final (-ge) are from Latin, mostly through French.  So although "refrigerator" comes from a Latin word, "fridge" accomodates itself to the common pattern used for the 'original English' forms.\n\n----------------\n\nA little overkill (sorry!)\n\nThe "rules" above seem to work pretty well when the syllable we're considering is ACCENTED.  When it loses the accent, things may seem more confusing.  \n\nThus there are, in fact, -age words in which the "a" is not long.   But neither is it an accented short vowel (as in "badge")!  Instead, the vowel has ended up in an UN-accented syllable where it is scarcely pronounced at all.   Example:  garbage, adage, manage, pillage.  (Not surprisingly, these are largely words borrowed from Latin, mostly through French into Middle English.)\n\nThen there is "garage".  Of course, English speakers can't even agree on how to pronounce it!  Dialects differ on the vowel sound, on which syllable to accent, and often on whether the final g is a "j" or "zh" sound .  (In this case I prefer the "zh" as befits its French origin.)
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Shite, Bugger, Flubber, Rubber, Buggy, Swimmingly, Doh, Cow, Beesknees, Dogies, Retriever, Drop, Stop, Mip, Mop, Pop, Bing, Bada, Boom, Bogey, Oogy, Boo, Spoon, Smorgasbord, Kumquat, Guacamole, Wing-it, Sing, Fizzle, Sizzle, Pizzal, Wing-nut, Melon, Crap (And the "S" equivalent of the same word) Fit, and My personal favorite, PfffftFine. We have such a colorful language nowadays, and if you say all these words in order, you will get a smile or a laugh from someone.
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Yeah lady death, it's definitely orgy because that ends in gry.\n\nWas the question really, "There are three words in 'the English language' that end in -gry..."  the Answer is language because 'language' is the 3rd word in 'the English language' just like English is the 2nd word.
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There is no other common word ending in "-gry"\nMay be we have say meagry or aggry \n\nThere are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry" \nHere is the List\n\naffect-hungry, fire-angry, MacLoingry, Seagry, \naggry, Gagry, mad-angry, self-angry, \nAgry, girl-hungry, mad-hungry, selfe-angry, \nahungry, gonagry, magry, sensation-hungry, \nair-hungry, gry, malgry, sex-angry, \nanhungry, haegry, man-hungry, sex-hungry, \nBadagry, half-angry, managry, Shchigry, \nBallingry, hangry, mannagry, shiggry, \nbegry, heart-angry, Margry, Shtchigry, \nbewgry, heart-hungry, maugry, sight-hungry, \nboroughmongry, higry, pigry, mawgry, skugry, \nbowgry, hogry, meagry, Sygry, \nbraggry, hogrymogry, meat-hungry, Tangry, \nBugry, hongry, menagry, Tchangry, \nChockpugry, hound-hungry, messagry, Tchigry, \nCogry, houngry, music-hungry, tear-angry, \ncony-gry, huggrymuggry, nangry, th'angry, \nconyngry, hund-hungry, overangry, tike-hungry, \ncottagry, Hungry, Bungry, Pelegry, Tingry, \nCroftangry, hwngry, Pingry, toggry, \ndiamond-hungry, iggry, Podagry, ulgry, \ndog-hungry, Jagry, Pongry, unangry, \ndogge-hungry, job-hungry, pottingry, vergry, \nDshagry, kaingry, power-hungry, Vigry, \nDzagry, land-hungry, profit-hungry, vngry, \neard-hungry, Langry, puggry, war-hungry, \nEchanuggry, leather-hungry, pugry, Wigry, \nEgry, ledderhungry, red-angry, wind-hungry, \neuer-angry, life-hungry, rungry, yeard-hungry, \never-angry, Lisnagry, scavengry, yird-hungry, \nfenegry, losengry, Schtschigry, Ymagry,
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Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was meagry or aggry (as in "aggry bead"). \nThere are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry" (see below), and these two were in use until fairly recently.\nThis 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:\n\n\naffect-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry \naggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry \nAgry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry \nahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry \nair-hungry gry malgry sex-angry \nanhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry \nBadagry half-angry managry Shchigry \nBallingry hangry mannagry shiggry \nbegry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry \nbewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry \nboroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry \nbowgry hogry meagry Sygry \nbraggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry \nBugry hongry menagry Tchangry \nChockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry \nCogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry \ncony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry \nconyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry \ncottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry \nCroftangry hwngry Pingry toggry \ndiamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry \ndog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry \ndogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry \nDshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry \nDzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry \neard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry \nEchanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry \nEgry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry \neuer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry \never-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry \nfenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry \n\nSince 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!\n\nTake a look at \nhttp://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
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The answer is sometimes given as "language," because "language" is the third word in the phrase "the English language." Two of the sentences thus have absolutely nothing to do with the question: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." They are there only to throw you off course. 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 first two sentences are just a red herring. But many people hear or read the question and assume it is referring to the first sentence. \n\nalso angry, hungry, aggry and puggry are in the dictionary but are not common words.
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all are english words,,,, \nahahaha !\nwhats up man,,,, you dont know them ?
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it is gry http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
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The REAL question reads:\n"Angry and hungry are two words that end in '-gry'. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it?"`\n\nOver time, this riddle has been distorted from a simple riddle to a word challenge. Besides Angry and Hungry, other English words that qualify are iggry, mawgry, and aggry- not common or even current English.\n\nWithout the rest of the riddle, there IS NO GOOD ANSWER!\n\nHowever, if you treat it like the riddle it is, the answer is simple, obvious, and satisfying.\n\nClue: The first sentence is a red herring- ignore it.\n\nFor the 'right' solution, try one of the links below.