HELP, HELP, HELP

[BiBabe:)]

Ok, I got this E-Mail from a friend of mine. I opened it up, and it was a riddle, PLEASE, help me figure it out.


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?

Send this to 5 people and you'll get the answer to pop up on your screen.



HELP, PLEASE

 

[Kuddles]

I found this on the dogpile search engine....

Dear Cecil:

There are three English words that end with -gry. Two of them are "hungry" and "angry." What's the third?
--Listener, Alan B. Colmes show, WNBC radio, New York

Cecil replies:

Every time I go on the radio I know this one's bound to come up sooner or later, along with "name an English word that
contains all the vowels just once in the right order." (Answer: facetiously. Come on, you think I was born yesterday?)

I don't know that I'd put either question on a par with the search for the unified field theory, but since you insist, here's the
answer: the word is gry, meaning "one tenth of a line"--not, as one might guess in these degraded times, a unit of measurement in
the drug trade, but rather part of the decimal system of linear measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke
(1632-1704).

A gry was a hundredth of an inch and a thousandth of a "philosophical foot." Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought
of measuring things in philosophical feet has an ineffable poignance. The Oxford English Dictionary says gry is also an obsolete
verb meaning to rage or roar.

But wait. Lest you think there is only one right answer to the truly cosmic questions of life, I should advise you of the existence
of puggry and aggry, which also fill the bill. Puggry is an alternate spelling of puggree, meaning either an Indian turban or a scarf
wound around a sun helmet with the end hanging down in back as a shade. An aggry bead, according to my Webster's Third, is
a "variegated glass bead found buried in the earth in Ghana and England."

As with many enigmatic dictionary definitions, this leaves one abubble with questions: Who buried them? And why Ghana and
England? Sadly, we must defer the amazing answer till some later date.

One last thing. Occasionally you'll hear the question above framed this way: "There are three English words ending with -gry.
Two of them are hungry and angry. The third word is very common; in fact you have just encountered it. What is the third
word?"

Naturally you are puzzled, because none of the words Cecil has just quoted is common. How do we explain this?

Easy. You are the victim of a despicable trick. The desired answer is "three."

 

[Kuddles]

Here's another...

http://www.word-detective.com/gry.html

 

[MinkSoul]

aawww Phooy.....

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[BiBabe:)]

Ok, thanx

Thanks everyone. I even called my mother, my father(they're divorced), my older brother, my grandfather, and asked my girlfriend. No one got the answer.

Now I'm angry because there is no word that ends in "gry" that fits the criteria of being common. Grrrr...I was really hoping there was an answer.

 

[Kuddles]

here's another....

http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/gry.htm

 

[SpecialK]

I haven't checked those links, but this thing has been around everywhere lately!

The correct form of the riddle is something like this:

"There are three words in 'The English Language' that end in -gry. Two of them are hungry and angry. What is the third word. Think about it and you will get it. If you have been paying attention, I have already told you what it is."























The answer of course is LANGUAGE... Just reread the first sentence. The riddle isn't looking for anything that ends in -gry at all.

K