"GRY"

[rebecca]

What is the third word in the English language that ends in "gry"? angry and hungry are the first two.

[FredPuli]

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!)

[rekstout]

OED has meagry

[drea]

There are two versions of this riddle. One: "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." For this riddle the answer is language. And two: There are three words in the English language that end in "-gry." ONE is angry and the other is hungry. Every ONE knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for. Every ONE uses them every day. And if you listened carefully I've given you the third word. What is it? The answer here is "three," which is the third word in the paragraph For this riddle the answer is three, which is the third word in the paragraph. Further, there is an interesting article about this riddle here: http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/gry.htm

[doh!]

If you're doing net riddle you don't actually need to work that out... just read the question through again - what's it asking you to put in??? that's my hint

[goowe]

is it GRY-ngots bank? or 'GRY-t balls of fire'? I searched dictionary.com for *gry and it gave me the darn riddle!