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| Q. Besides angry and hungry, is there another common English word that ends in -gry? A. No. There are a few English words that end in -gry, including but not limited to the following words in our dictionary: angry hungry aggry puggry There are at least a hundred more you can find in the Oxford English Dictionary, dialect dictionaries, gazetteers and onomasticons, but none of them are common. Some are simply hyphenated items like "dog-hungry" and "ever-angry," while others are variants like "begry" (for "beggary") and "higry pigry" (a variation of "hierapicra"). There is even a word "gry" which is an obsolete unit of measure equaling 0.008 inches. But the reason the question comes up so frequently is because of a riddle. One version of the riddle goes, The Riddle: Quote:
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. But that might not be the answer; that might not even be the question. In his remarkable book Wordplay, Chris Cole gives a historical account of the riddle and seven different versions of it with seven different answers. Here is one: Quote:
The final word goes to author and linguist Richard Lederer (who, in his book Word Circus, likens the riddle to "an angry, hungry monster"): "The answer to the infernal question is that there is no answer, at least no satisfactory answer." Source http://dictionary.reference.com/help...age/g/gry.html |
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| It's just language There are three words in "the englisch language" So the third word is Language! |
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| wat is the 3rd word hurry. 2/15/04 7:54 |
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| the answer is "language".... it says there are three words in "the english language" what is the third word?... so it would be "language" |
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Angry and hungry are two common words that end in -gry. What is the third word in the English language? |
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See, if you read the riddle (as I've read it -many- times trying to figure it out), it states: "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." It clearly states "There are only three words in the English language." Broken down, you can look at it like this: "There are only three words in the english language." The third word would be "language". -Miss Citric Acid |
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