Discuss "# words in english that and in the letters GRY " he

[Will]

duh what do you think

[HappyFunBall]

Well it's nice that the solution was posted immediately. Just one problem: Bulgry is not a country. Bulgaria is, but it's not next to Spain. This "puzzle" is generally worded along the lines of: "Angry and hungry both end in -gry. What's another common English word that does also?" The thing about this is that there aren't any other common English words that end in -gry. There's a whole bunch of obscure words. I've seen the list but don't remember any of them off the top of my head.

That all being said. Who posted this piece of garbage? (not to mention the other 2 new ones). Whoever it is should really learn some basic English spelling and grammar. I mean....none of the other puzzles here are this bad. And this isn't just a random little mistake. They're all full of run-on sentences and bad spelling and lots of ???????? marks. What happened here, people?

disgruntled,
HappyFunBall

[HappyFunBall]

I don't mind getting fooled by April Fools stuff, but it should at least wait until the 1st...this was still the 31st when I looked.....dammit.

[Tahnan]

I'm not sure I understand...after all, "Bulgry" is a European country so not really an English word, right?

[Griffin]

Originally posted by Tahnan:

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I'm not sure I understand...after all, "Bulgry" is a European country so not really an English word, right?

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I'm not so sure (If, hypothetically, Bulgry were a country). I would think Bulgry would be the English word for that country. Or else what language would the word "Germany" be from?

BTW, I think having Will do a puzzle update is hilarious.

[Ancalagon]

I can't believe this is the real Will. =p

[ZutAlors!]

I'd like to point out, Tahnan, that "bulgry" (uncapitalized) is both a type of wheat and a medical condition often seen among those wearing Speedos. Now, technically, Will chose the capitalized "Bulgry" as the answer, but even were you to argue that "Bulgry" is a foreign word, "bulgry" most emphatically is not. So, even though the answer as given lacks a certain elegance, it's not wrong, per se.

[Robert911]

These are the dumbest posts I have seen on this site. bulgry is not a word at all. Are these April Fools jokes, or did some idiot hack into the GL website?

[jmccaskill]

HappyFunBall - I have also seen this puzzle worded as follows:

Think of words that end in -gry, such as angry and hungry. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? You use it everyday, and if you have listened closely I have already given you the answer.

This wording makes it pretty clear that the somewhat pedestrian answer is "language". There are three words in "the English language", so "language" is the third word, and language is something you use everyday.

[test78]

hey guys is that the best april's fool joke you could come up with?
Ah well, I thought it was pretty funny...

[HyToFry]

I totaly agree about the puzzles being crap. They even made me laugh.

[What if...]

Really, what's the deal here? I'm just curious why this stupidity is here. I thought it was funny, but why the joke (as I hope it is)? April Fools? Is there a story here?
Also, because of the question's wording, you can pick any of 2-150 words, depending on how recent or common you consider English words to be.

[Antrax]

This should explain it, I believe.
Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

[CrystyB]

1) What's with the page width? (the first column had a way too large width for no (apparent) reason. It's gone now...)

2) When i saw the first of the three puzzles (3 hats) i thought "WTF??" (in a somewhat laughing gruntle). Then i went to the second, found it quite funny to have MORE of this type of puzzles, and then i saw the 'april's fools' comment. I think the target of the puzzles was reached!!!

PS Thnx for the link to the explanation.

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 04-07-2003 02:06 AM).]

[fritfrat]

my god if ur gonna post up a riddle post it up right. there are over 100 words that end in -gry (such as "gry" and "pugry" as common answers) if u look it up! thats why in the actual riddle (which was posted) there is "you use it every day."


Think of words that end in GRY. Angry and hungry are 2 of them. There are three words in the English language. What is it? It is something everybody uses everyday. If you've listened carefully I've already told you the third.


get the riddle right if ur gonna post it

[The Cruciverbalist]

fritfrat, as the main pages now says, that riddle was an April Fool's joke. It was intentionally bad; the person who supposedly posted it is notorious for bad spelling, bad grammar, and inaccuracy in general, and this was the Labyrinth's way of poking fun at that person.

[Antrax]

Actually, it my way of poking at all the too-serious puzzle solvers who would actually be flustered about someone posting a puzzle incorrectly
Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

[fritfrat]

oops, my bad, I thought the actually riddle of 3 words that end in -gry was the april fools part of it all

[ZutAlors!]

Well, fritfrat, the thing with these "April Fool's" puzzles is that there are there are multiple layers of foolishness involved. For instance, you've already cracked the first two layers: not only was this a foolish puzzle, but it was posted intentionally badly. Simply realizing this this seemingly straightforward mangled chestnut is really a layered meta-puzzle is just one more layer. However, there are additional layers here. Just one that I found: if you take the text of the puzzle (in English there are many words that end with the letters GRY two of them are angry and hungry but what is the third one?? hm???????????? ) and use the indicated number of ?s to decode it, you get the message: "I am posting this while naked." Makes me feel icky just thinking about it, but there you go.

[Schaharazaad]

HEY!! ok the Great Gry Riddle is a commonly misworded riddle that has obviously fallen to people who didnt hear the riddle right. the correct riddle is as follows: Angry and hungry are two words that end in gry. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means, and everyone uses it every day. The answer is language. The first sentence, though true, is irrelevent in this case. the second sentence is the one you need to hear. There are three words in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Obviously, language is indeed the third word. i hope i have cleared some confusion because, though gry is a word itself, it isn't the actual answer to this riddle.

[Antrax]

You certainly cleared a lot of confusion about your attention span and how much you care about other people's posts. I'm tempted to lock these threads, I can't believe we're still getting posts about it!
It was only a harmless joke, I swear! The mistakes were intentional! So were the grammar errors, misspellings, ugly drawings and all the rest!
Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

[Wheels]

The attached is attributable to Richard Lederer.

This Riddle Isn't Letter-Perfect


They're ba-a-a-a-ck -- the readers and listeners who write or e-mail or call or stop me on the street to ask: "There are three words in the English language that end in g-r-y. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?"

The greatest service I can perform for the American people is to announce here that the gry question is one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history. The poser slithered onto the American scene on a New York TV quiz show, in early 1975. I've tried to bury gry before, but it keeps rising, like some angry, hungry monstrosity from Tales From the Crypt.

The answer to the infernal question is that there is no answer, at least no satisfactory answer. I advise anybody who happens on the angry+hungry+? poser to stop burning time and to move on to a more productive activity, like counting the number of angels on the head of a pin or waiting for a decrease in our property taxes.

In unabridged dictionaries repose at least 50 gry words in addition to angry and hungry, and every one of them is either a variant spelling, as in augry for augury, begry for beggary, and bewgry for buggery, or ridiculously obscure, as in anhungry, an obsolete synonym for hungry; aggry, a kind of variegated glass bead much in use in the Gold Coast of West Africa; puggry, a Hindu scarf wrapped around the helmet or hat and trailing down the back to keep the hot sun off one's neck; or gry, a medieval unit of measurement equaling one-tenth of a line.

There are those who contend that the solution to the gry poser is right in front of our eyes. All we have to do is focus on the third and fourth sentences in one version of the riddle: "Think of three 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 everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is." The third word in the English language is, of course, language, which is certainly something we use every day. The whole business about words ending in gry is just a smoke screen.

Nonsense. Humbug. Hogwash. Tripe. Flapdoodle. Folderol. Balderdash. Baloney. This spin on the poser gives linguistic chicanery a bad name.The structure of this statement is rickety, and the English language is not surrounded by quotation marks. The 1975 version of the challenge and those for two decades after do not include the There are three words in the English language sentence. What we have here is a post hoc hoax.

A much more challenging and humane puzzle of this type is "Name a common word, besides tremendous, stupendous, and horrendous, that ends in dous."

At least 32 additional -dous words repose in various dictionaries: apodous, antropodous, blizzardous, cogitabundous, decapodous, frondous, gastropodous, heteropodous, hybridous, iodous, isopodous, jeopardous, lagopodous, lignipodous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, nodous, octapodous, palladous, paludous, pudendous, repandous, rhodous, sauropodous, staganopodous, tetrapodous, thamphipodous, tylopodous, vanadous, and voudous.

But these are arcane examples. The fourth common word is (and note the alteration in stress) . . . hazardous.

Caveat Scriptor: Perpetuating the -gry puzzle can be hazardous to our nation's health. Now that you've read this column, you can spend your time on more useful projects -- like getting ready for the weekend.

[EHoneycomb]

Actually the original puzzle said: "Angry and Hungry are 2 of the many words in the English language that end in -gry. What's the third word?" And the answer is Hungry.

[What if...]

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[CrystyB]

that answer is Hungry since the third word of "angry and hungry" is hungry...

[Neo]

You know, I've only posted in here like three times in my time.

That said, why not do what nobody bothered to do, and post this?

And I'm tempted to lock this thread

[Francis]

The answer to -GRY problem is "igry", of course.

http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/archives/000123.html

[ralphmerridew]

I think that "GRYPHON" can be used with the right wording; be sure not to specify which end it goes on.