HELP - Words Ending In "GRY"
Jim Russell
A friend called me frantically saying she had heard that there are only
three words in the English language which end in the letters G-R-Y.
She and her co-workers found two of them - angry and hungry - but are
racking their brains for the third.
ANY SUGGESTIONS?????
s...@anv.net
ji...@business-broker.com (Jim Russell) wrote:
>ANY SUGGESTIONS?????
Try
http://www.users.interport.net/%7Ewords1/gry.html
Doug McKean
Jim Russell wrote:
>
> A friend called me frantically saying she had heard that there are only
> three words in the English language which end in the letters G-R-Y.
>
> She and her co-workers found two of them - angry and hungry - but are
> racking their brains for the third.
>
> ANY SUGGESTIONS?????
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
STOP!!!!!!!
I GIVE UP!!!!!!
WHAT DO YOU WANT???????
I'LL DO ANYTHING!!!
STOP IT!!!!
I DON'T HAVE IT!!!
IT'S SAFE!!! YES, IT'S SAFE!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
The answer is olive of cloves.
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In article <4vfuh5$i...@Grouper.Exis.Net>,
ji...@business-broker.com (Jim Russell) wrote:
>A friend called me frantically saying she had heard that there are only
>three words in the English language which end in the letters G-R-Y.
>
>She and her co-workers found two of them - angry and hungry - but are
>racking their brains for the third.
>
>ANY SUGGESTIONS?????
Yes. Read the FAQ. :) This is probably the most commonly asked question on
rec.puzzles; it seems to be asked and answered more than once every week.
For a quick list you can hop over to <URL: www.oed.com>. Last I checked
they had words ending in -GRY as one of their demo lists before the site
opened.
- Paul
pa...@televault.com
Bill Vanyo
ji...@business-broker.com (Jim Russell) wrote:
>A friend called me frantically saying she had heard that there are only
>three words in the English language which end in the letters G-R-Y.
How frantic was she?
>She and her co-workers found two of them - angry and hungry - but are
>racking their brains for the third.
>ANY SUGGESTIONS?????
Tell them to keep racking their brains. Tell them you know the
answer, but don't want to spoil it for them. Promise them they will
be quite pleased with themselves when they finally discover the answer
on their own. Offer them a big cash reward as an incentive. Etc.
Tell your friend there are 7 words in the English language, which we
all use daily, that end in the letters J-P-X-F-Z. Then see how
frantic she gets.
Doug McKean
Jim Russell wrote:
>
> A friend called me frantically saying she had heard that there are only
> three words in the English language which end in the letters G-R-Y.
>
> racking their brains for the third.
>
> ANY SUGGESTIONS?????
OK Jim,
Do this, tell them the word is ENERGY.
Say to them, "It was so damn obvious!"
Chuckle to yourself.
Never explain it.
They'll have great respect for you.
You may even get a promotion out of it.
Doug
Chris Cole
This question is in the rec.puzzles archive:
==> language/english/spelling/gry.p <==
Find three completely different words ending in "gry."
==> language/english/spelling/gry.s <==
Aside from "angry" and "hungry" and words derived therefrom, there is
only one word ending with "-gry" in Webster's Third Unabridged: "aggry."
However, this word is defective in that it is part of a phrase "aggry
beads."
The OED's usage examples all talk about "aggry beads."
Moving to older dictionaries, we find that "gry" itself is a word in
Webster's
Second Unabridged (and the OED):
gry, n. [L. gry, a trifle; Gr. gry, a grunt]
1. a measure equal to one-tenth of a line. [Obs.] (Obs. = obsolete)
2. anything very small. [Rare.]
At the end of this article is a list of 100 words, phrases and names
ending in "gry".
The original question probably had the intended answer "aggry." But
once that answer was rejected as defective, the puzzle refused to die.
Clones arose, using various forms of trickery.
One trick version of the puzzle is:
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 everyday. If you have listened
carefully, I have already told you what it is.
The answer is supposed to be "language" (the first two words being "the"
and
"English"). But then there are some quotation marks missing around "the
English language," which makes this a good radio puzzle but a terrible
print
puzzle.
Another trick version is:
Angry and hungry are two words in the English language that end in
'gry.'
What is the third word. The word is something that everyone uses
everyday.
If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
The answer is supposed to be "what" (notice the absence of a question
mark).
But again, there are some quotation marks missing when the puzzle is
printed.
Yet another trick solution is:
The answer is 'energy'. The riddle says that the word ends in the
_letters_ "gry", so order doesn't matter. 'energy' is something
everyone uses everyday, and everyone probably knows what it means.
incidentally, the person who posted the riddle had heard it on the
radio, so the quotes were his addition, in fact the riddle might
have even gone 'ending in the letters g, r, and y' which would
make the answer more obvious. I liked all the misleading stuff
in the riddle too, for example, 'There are three words' well,
obviously there are more than three, but to say 'there _are_ three'
is still a true statement. And of course, the examples of angry
and hungry try to make you think the third word has gry in the same
order. But saying that 'everyone knows what it means' meant you
didn't have to look in any dictionary for an obscure word.
This seems like a stretch; why the particular letters "gry"? I suggest
that
no one would ever propose such a puzzle, unless there were a prior
puzzle
that really meant ending in the sequence "gry."
Here is the list:
[Explanation of references is given at the end of the list.]
aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
Agry Dagh (Mount Agry) [EB11]
ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
Badagry [Johnston; EB11]
Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; RD:164, pl.49]
begry [OED:1:770,767]
bewgry [OED:1:1160]
bowgry [OED:1:1160]
braggry [OED:1:1047]
Bugry [TIG]
Chockpugry [Worcester]
Cogry [BBC]
cony-gry [OED:2:956]
conyngry [OED:2:956]
Croftangry [DFC, as "Chrystal Croftangry"]
dog-hungry [W2]
Dshagry [Stieler]
Dzagry [Andree]
eard-hungry [CED (see "yird"); CSD]
Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
Egry [France; TIG]
ever-angry [W2]
fire-angry [W2]
Gagry [EB11]
gry (from Latin _gry_) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
gry (from Romany _grai_) [W2]
haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
half-angry [W2]
hangry [OED:1:329]
heart-angry [W2]
heart-hungry [W2]
higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
Hungry Bungry [Daily Illini, in ad for The Giraffe, Spring 1976]
iggry [OED]
Jagry [EB11]
kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
land-hungry [OED; W2]
leather-hungry [OED]
Langry [TIG; Times]
Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489]
MacLoingry [Phillips (as "Flaithbhertach MacLoingry")]
mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
malgry [OED:6/2:247]
man-hungry [OED]
Margry [Indians (see "Pierre Margry" in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
meagry [OED:6/2:267]
meat-hungry [W2]
menagry [OED (see "managery")]
messagry [OED]
nangry [OED]
overangry [RH1; RH2]
Pelegry [CE (in main index as "Raymond de Pelegry")]
Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
rungry [EDD:5:188]
scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
Schtschigry [LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
Seagry [TIG; EB11]
Segry [Johnston; Andree]
self-angry [W2]
self-hungry ?
Shchigry [CLG:1747; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times:185,pl.45]
shiggry [EDD]
Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
Shtshigry [Lipp]
skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
Sygry [Andree]
Tangry [France]
Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
Tchigry [Johnson:594]
tear-angry [W2]
tike-hungry [CSD]
Tingry [France; EB11 (under "Princesse de Tingry")]
toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry", but all entries are capitalized)]
ulgry [Partridge; Smith:24-25]
unangry [OED; W2]
vergry [OED:12/1:123]
Vigry [CLG:2090]
Wigry [CLG:2090; NAP:xxxix; Times:220, pl.62; WA:948]
wind-angry.
wind-hungry [W2]
yeard-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
yerd-hungry [CED (see "yird"); OED]
yird-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]
This list was gathered from the following articles:
George H. Scheetz, In Goodly Gree: With Goodwill, Word Ways 22:195 (Nov.
1989)
Murray R. Pearce, Who's Flaithbhertach MacLoingry?, Word Ways 23:6 (Feb.
1990)
Harry B. Partridge, Gypsy Hobby Gry, Word Ways 23:9 (Feb. 1990)
A. Ross Eckler, -Gry Words in the OED, Word Ways 25:4 (Nov. 1992)
References:
(Many references are of the form [Source:volume:page] or [Source:page].)
Andree, Richard. Andrees Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
Bartholomew, John. Gazetteer of the British Isles: Statistical and
Topographical. 1887.
BBC = BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of English Names.
Bio-Base. (Microfiche) Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1980.
CE = Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907.
CED = Chambers English Dictionary. 1988.
Century = "India, Northern Part." The Century Atlas of the World. 1897,
1898.
CLG = The Colombia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World. L.E.Seltzer, ed.
1952.
CSD = Chambers Scots Dictionary. 1971 reprint of 1911 edition.
Daily Illini (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
DFC = Dictionary of Fictional Characters. 1963.
EB11 = Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed.
EDD = The English Dialect Dictionary. Joseph Wright, ed. 1898.
France = Map Index of France. G.H.Q. American Expeditionary Forces.
1918.
FW = Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language.
1943.
HPS = The Handbook of Private Schools: An Annual Descriptive Survey of
Independent Education, 66th ed. 1985.
Indians = Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. F. W. Hodge.
1912.
Jamieson, John. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language.
1879-87.
Johnston, Keith. Index Geographicus... 1864.
LG/1 = Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing
Gazetteer
or Geographical Dictionary of the World. 1888.
LG/2 = Lippincott's New Gazetteer: ... 1906.
Lipp = Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World. 1861, undated
edition from late 1800's; 1902.
NAP = Narodowy Atlas Polski. 1973-1978 [Polish language]
OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. 1933. [Form: OED:volume/part number
if
applicable:page]
OSN: U.S.S.R. Volume 6, S-T. Official Standard Names Approved by the
United
States Board on Geographic Names. Gazetteer #42, 2nd ed. June
1970.
Partridge, Harry B. "Ad Memoriam Demetrii." Word Ways, 19 (Aug. 1986):
131.
Phillips, Lawrence. Dictionary of Biographical Reference. 1889.
RD = The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of the British Isles, 1st ed.
1965.
RH1 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. 1966.
RH2 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition
Unabridged. 1987.
Simmonds, P.L. Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products. 1883.
Smith, John. The True Travels, Adventvres and Observations: London 1630.
Stieler, Adolph. Stieler's Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
TIG = The Times Index-Gazetteer of the World. 1965.
Times = The Times Atlas of the World, 7th ed. 1985.
W2 = Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language,
Second Edition, Unabridged. 1934.
W3 = Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English
Language,
Unabridged. 1961.
WA = The World Atlas: Index-Gazetteer. Council of Ministires of the
USSR, 1968.
Worcester, J.E. Universal Gazetteer, Second Edition. 1823.
Words from Webster's Third that contain "gry" but do not end in "gry":
agrypnia
arthrogryposis
gryllid
grylloblattodea
gryllotalpa
gryllus
gryphaea
gryphaeoid
gryphon
gryposis
grysbok
grysbuck
onychogryposis
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