Aaaah Quick Bit Of Riddle Help

Moquiao

<div class="IPBDescription">i know this has been done b4 need help:P</div> "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?

baconflaps

edit:Smoke^Nova threw a hissy fit in IRC and demanded I remove the answer. You win, commie. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Vulgar_Menace

I don't get it. Explain please.

Josiah_Bartlet

Good God it was only 5 minutes ago.

UltimaGecko

<!--QuoteBegin-Moquiao+Feb 11 2004, 07:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Moquiao @ Feb 11 2004, 07:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> "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? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is meant to throw you off.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->There are three words in the English language. What is the
third word?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

This is the actual riddle. ...what is the third word in "The English Language?"

Smoke_Nova

Josiah, EDIT! No fun to a riddle if the answer is told just by scrolling down!

MrMojo

You just need to read it carefully. Pretty easy.

Vulgar_Menace

Ha! Brilliant!

DOOManiac

You find the most interesting things while <a href='http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html' target='_blank'>Googling</a>.

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Actually, 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.

    "But that can't be the answer," you groan. No. It's not. There is no answer.

        The 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
NO 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.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Is this accurate? Who knows. But its entertaining, and that's what counts.

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And also there's <a href='http://www.word-detective.com/gry.html' target='_blank'>this</a>.
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