However, in truth, angry and hungry are the only two everyday English words ending in-gry.
The answer, then, may lie in the way the riddle is phrased. Here are two possible wordings suggested by members of America Online, where this riddle has been much discussed:
1.Think of three words ending in -gry.Angryandhungryare two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
According to proponents of this version, the answer to the riddle is the word "language." This makes sense when you reduce the riddle to its two central sentences: "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?" (or, in other words, "What is the third word in the three-word phrasethe English language?").
The mention of words ending in -gry is assumed to be a smoke screen. The rest of the riddle is interpreted to mean "What is the third word in the three-word phrase the English language?"
2.There are three words in the English language that end in-gry. One ishungryand the other isangry. What is the third word. Everyone uses this word every day. . . .
Those who prefer this version of the riddle say that the answer is the word "what." Notice that the sentence "What is the third word" is not followed by a question mark, so it's not a question; it's a statement of the answer, "Whatis the third word." Here again, the words ending in -gry are supposedly just a smoke screen.
We don't know if either of these explanations is the true solution to the riddle, but we assume that the solution (if it exists at all) is along these lines.
Again, there are only two common words in English that end in-gry:angryandhungry
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