Please check out http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/gryFARQ.html
Please Help Me.......This making me crazy
by butalbee 14 Replies latest jw friends
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belbab
http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html
The question is a trick question, there is no third common word ending in "gry"
The question is a trick question as the above article shows.
belbab
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butalbee
Thanks guys and gals!!!!!!
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Nathan Natas
I found this bit of insight at http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/gryFARQ.html
For reasons that we can't determine, the "-gry question" is turning up again and again from our patrons. The best and most comprehensive answer to it comes from the Stumpers discussion list for reference librarians, and we quote from it below.
Here is the question in its correct "puzzle" form. "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 everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully , I've already told you what it is."
The secret here is that the real question is "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?" That is, there are only three words in the phrase "the English language". The third word is "language", which is indeed something we use every day. The first two words are "the" and "English".
Having found the answer to the actual riddle, however, you may still wonder if there are any other English words ending in -gry. There are.
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happysunshine
Thats not a riddle. Thats a poorly written paragraph. Not sporting or fun.