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Subject: Re: That stupid "hungry" and "Angry" riddle ANSWER

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Date Posted: 08:12:04 08/01/06 Tue
In reply to: Christine 's message, "That stupid "hungry" and "Angry" riddle ANSWER" on 17:30:12 03/18/03 Tue

>There are three words in the English language that end
>in -gry. One is hungry and another is angry. What is
>the third word? Everyone uses this word every day;
>everyone knows what it means and what it stands for.
>If you've listened closely, I've already told you what
>the word is.
>The last sentence of the riddle is the part that's
>keeping people awake at night.
>
>Hungry for an Answer
>In the days before the riddle began to spread like a
>computer virus, our stock answer to questions about
>the third word was that Webster's Third New
>International Dictionary, Unabridged (our unabridged
>dictionary that contains 470,000 entries) includes
>just three words ending in -gry. In addition to hungry
>and angry, there is anhungry, an obsolete synonym of
>hungry. Anhungry was used by Shakespeare in his play
>Coriolanus (Act I, scene i, line 209).

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Re: That stupid "hungry" and "Angry" riddle ANSWER	Richard (angry?)	09:34:46 04/05/07 Thu