words ending in "-gry

fadi99

Questions like this belong in rec.puzzles, not here; consult the
rec.puzzles archive. However, the short answer is:

  THERE IS NO COMMON THIRD WORD ENDING IN \"-GRY\".

The full FAQ gives a long list of extremely obscure words which do. The
real problem with this riddle is that it is a trick question, which only
works with a spoken question. The actual trick can take several forms,
one of which is:

\"Think of words ending in 'gry'. Angry and hungry are two of them.
There are three words in the English language. What is the third word?
The word is something that everyone uses every day.\"

The answer in this case is \"language\" (the first two words being \"the\"
and \"English\" -- the trick is that \"the English language\" is to be
treated as if in quotation marks).

A person who doesn't know the trick and asks someone else to try the
puzzle will almost certainly change the wording, unwittingly making it
insoluble. An article on the history and variants of this riddle is at:
  http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html