Last updated February 3, 2001
Since frequent repetitions of the -gry words prompted the birth of the LM_NET FAQ last
summer, I thought a farewell was appropriate as this item is being retired (I hope for
good) from the LM_NET FAQ. Recent postings have suggested it was a trick question after
all.
The website addresses shown below change frequently and/or disappear. If a link goes
"dead" and disapperars, let me know and I'll delete the site as an active link.
Jim Neal, LM_NET on the Web webmaster
***** -gry words*****
Among the suggestions from LM_NET members on finding -gry words: Web site:: Use Lycos, : http://lycos.com and using the string "gry" will
find words ending in "gry"
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Search the Stumpers archive: gopher://gopher.cuis.edu,
under Library resources.
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In Richard Lederer's _Adventures of a Verbivore_....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, ... 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.
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From an article in the Chicago Tribune, Ap 17, 1981 by Jack Mabley: anhungry & mawgry.
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the latest volume of "The Straight Dope" by a man who calls himself Cecil Adams.
He runs a question and answer piece that run in many alternative papers . According to his
book More of the Straight Dope published in 1994, "gry" itself is a word meaning
a tenth of a measurement of some kind.
*****AND the recent explanations:*****
It was meant as an "oral" question. The questioner says that there are at least
three words in the English Language that end in "g or y" and goes on to use the
word "say" several times indicating that the listener "says" the third
word many times a day. It is the listener who assumes the word ends in "gry." It
doesn't work in print.
The original riddle reads: Hungry and angry are two common words ending in
"-gry." What is the third word in The English Language. Hint: It is also a
common word.
The answer, folks--when you get the original wording right, is LANGUAGE. The third word in
"THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE," obviously, is LANGUAGE.
*****"they came for...I didn't speak up" quote*****
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me -
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemoeller, Protestant leader in Germany and concentration
camp survivor
source, Christian Ethics Today, February 1997, as quoted in The Oklahoma
Observer, April 10, 1997
(Thanks to Cindy Carr)
(Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Fifteenth Edition has a slightly different and less
poetic version)
*****sources for internet acceptable use policies*****
http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resources/acceptable.html
http://inspire.ospi.wednet.edu/AUP.html
http://www.uwsp.edu/acaddept/comm/591class/14/tempb.htm
http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~lchampel/netadv.htm
http://www.wentworth.com/classroom/crcsamp.htm
http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~mstimson/hotspots.html
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A simple way to start a search for this information is to do a webcrawler search--to do
this if you have only a lynx connection to the world wide web is this -- type: lynx http://www.webcrawler.com. When you get there simply follow
the directions.