A riddle that will KILL ya!

[bint]

:D
This is going to make you so MAD! There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". ONE is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word. What is it? _______gry?

HUEVER GUESSES RYT FIRST WILL HAVE EARNED THEMSELVES REPS FOR 5 DAYS!:inlove:

[Unique Muslimah]

LOL I know this from before..so it'd be cheating if I wrote it..:p
Good luck u lot..loll.

[M.K.I]

i new i shudnt hav clicked on dis von vyyyyyyy........did i do it...............ok sumovons got 2 say the answer (im in a being thick mood but i cud do vid the reps anyvays)quick or i wont sleep............:confused:

[Unique Muslimah]

Bint knows the answer;)

[Ar-Raya]

I really don't mean to be a spoil sport,but that's not how the original was written...That one there is the confusing way of writing it which you could take to mean that the riddle was asking for different things...although the answer to the original is language (I think)

But that riddle there never actually asks for you to say that...

Again...I'm really sorry to say it...and I don't wanna be the smarty pants or anything,the guy that comes along and spoils everyones fun by telling them they're wrong...

*smiles*...
Btw was that the answer you were looking for...

[bint]

I really don't mean to be a spoil sport,but that's not how the original was written...That one there is the confusing way of writing it which you could take to mean that the riddle was asking for different things...although the answer to the original is language (I think)

But that riddle there never actually asks for you to say that...

Again...I'm really sorry to say it...and I don't wanna be the smarty pants or anything,the guy that comes along and spoils everyones fun by telling them they're wrong...

*smiles*...
Btw was that the answer you were looking for...

carry on...;)

[ur_yusra]

I don't get it.. Ar Raya how can that be the answer??

[Niqaabi]

how can it be language when it doesnt end with 'gry'?

[Unique Muslimah]

there are three words in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE being the third..english being the second..the being the first..

[bint]

I don't get it.. Ar Raya how can that be the answer??

told u it will make u angry lmaooo!!:rotfl:

[bint]

I don't get it.. Ar Raya how can that be the answer??

told u it will make u angry lmaooo!!:rotfl:

[.: Rashid :.]

Nor do I. It doesn't end in gry? :S

-Rashid

[SoulAsylum]

LaunGRY......WronGRY.........YaunGry..... :confused: :confused: :confused:

Damn........im stumped.

[SoulAsylum]

Trick question BINT :torture:

[.: Rashid :.]

I had to do a google :embar:

Put "" marks around "the English language"...

The 3rd word in the quote is language...hence the answer...

So I guess we raided this thread? :p

Sowwy

-Rashid

[Ar-Raya]

It's the way that version of the riddle is written...
It gives the statement that there are three words in the english language ending in GRY...and the statement
[There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".]
doesn't make it clear that you are actually saying "three words in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"

The original,or rather one of the variations on the original is similar to how it should or was first told...

Think of words ending in "GRY".
Angry and Hungry are two of them.
The English language has only three words
What is the third word?
Everyone uses it everyday and if you had been listening carefully,you would already know the third word.

[ur_yusra]

It's the way that version of the riddle is written...
It gives the statement that there are three words in the english language ending in GRY...and the statement
[There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".]
doesn't make it clear that you are actually saying "three words in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"

The original,or rather one of the variations on the original is similar to how it should or was first told...

Think of words ending in "GRY".
Angry and Hungry are two of them.
The English language has only three words
What is the third word?
Everyone uses it everyday and if you had been listening carefully,you would already know the third word.



yeh that one makes more sense

the other once is decieving.. :torture:

[BubbleGum]

What is the third common "-gry" word?

Many times over the years we've been asked "What three words in English end in -gry?" The popularity of the question has boomed recently, apparently because it's now being phrased in the form of a riddle, which goes more or less as follows: 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).
Webster's Third also includes an entry for aggry bead, defined as "a variegated glass bead found buried in the earth in Ghana and in England," but we have no evidence that aggry ever occurs separate from "bead."
If we dig a little deeper, we find that there are actually many more words that end in -gry, including gry itself. This extremely rare word was entered and defined in our Second New International Dictionary of 1934 as "a measure equal to one-tenth of a line" and was also marked as obsolete.
The great 20-volume historical dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) attests to a number of equally obscure -gry words. It gives mawgry, magry, and maugry, all obsolete variant spellings of the word more commonly written maugre, a preposition meaning "in spite of." But even this modern spelling of the word is now archaic.
The OED also gives puggry, a variant of the word puggree. Our dictionaries list what we believe to be the most common form of that word, puggaree, which is of Hindi origin and denotes a light scarf usually worn wrapped around a sun helmet.
Another example is iggry, which the OED enters as a variant spelling of iggri, an English spelling of an Egyptian Arabic word meaning "hurry up!" The entry has double bars in front of it, however, which means that the editors do not consider it an English word even though it appears occasionally in English contexts. These and other equally unfamiliar words are too rare to merit entry in our unabridged dictionary.


http://www.m-w.com/help/faq/gryquestion.htm

~Bub

[Niqaabi]

Yeah that version is better, the other one is misleading :mad:

I say we all neg rep the thread starter :freedom:

I am joking!!!! Will not be held accountable for other people's imisbehaviour :p

[BubbleGum]

Yeah that version is better, the other one is misleading :mad:

I say we all neg rep the thread starter :freedom:

I am joking!!!! Will not be held accountable for other people's imisbehaviour :p

Yeah!!! That was not nice and I am so hungry for revenge that it makes me iggry!

Let's all form an angry MOB!

Bub searches for the pitchfork and torch wielding emoticons...

j/k Try the Studies/Puzzles Forum next time, bint.

~Bub

[bint]

cmon ppz ....:inlove: ...why am i waiting?:rolleyes: :zzz:

[bint]

knock knock:D what u give up already?:p