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Subject: Re: GRY?

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Date Posted: 10:28:43 02/23/06 Thu
In reply to: Sean 's message, "GRY?" on 06:56:10 04/29/04 Thu

>If you take the sentence, There are three words in the
>English language that end in "gry". It actually means
>three words the end in "gry". This is not a very good
>riddle. The grammar for the answer to the riddle is
>incorrect! Dumb people!

Taken at face value, the -gry question can be researched like any other. The most widely quoted source for words with the suffix -gry is the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition), which lists six words in addition to angry and hungry: aggry, a glass bead found buried in the soil of Ghana; anhungry, a word used by Shakespeare to mean "not hungry"; meagry, of meager appearance; podagry, gout in the feet; puggry, an alternate spelling for puggree, a light scarf worn around a hat or helmet to protect one's head from the sun; and gry itself, a word meaning variously "the grunt of a pig," "the dirt under a fingernail," "the veriest trifle," or "to rage, roar." Some of these unusual words from the OED may also be found in dictionaries of American English; in particular, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language and Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary.

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