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Words that end in ..gry
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There are 3 English words that end in ...GRY. Angry,Hungry and what? Is this true
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.FredPuli offered this answer to the riddle a few months ago:
"This question crops up very often. The apparently mystifying answer is "language", because this all derives from a riddle, which, correctly worded and usually written in upper case to conceal any deficiency in punctuation begins something like " The English language contains two..." or even " There are three words in the English language..." tells you that angry and hungry are two and ends with the question " what is the third word? "or even" What is the third word in the English language ?"There is no third word ending' -gry' in English though there were some in ancestors of the language, apparently ( this question even ended up with its own website once!)"
"This question crops up very often. The apparently mystifying answer is "language", because this all derives from a riddle, which, correctly worded and usually written in upper case to conceal any deficiency in punctuation begins something like " The English language contains two..." or even " There are three words in the English language..." tells you that angry and hungry are two and ends with the question " what is the third word? "or even" What is the third word in the English language ?"There is no third word ending' -gry' in English though there were some in ancestors of the language, apparently ( this question even ended up with its own website once!)"
If you click http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words1.html
a link will take you to a web-page where you'll find there are several words - albeit not very common ones - that end in 'gry', so the riddle is a nonsense, anyway! When you get to the web-page, scroll down to the paragraph headed 'ANHUNGRY' and read from there.