a riddle that'll fry your brain! in The AnswerBank: Quizzes & Puzzles

See this numan:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Quest ion164417.html

its a trick question. check out what i found online:

In its proper, original form, the first two sentences have absolutely nothing to do with the question: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore those two sentences. They are there only to throw you off course. (And it worked, didn't it?) What's left is the actual riddle itself: "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."
The key is the phrase "the English language." In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word "language." Get it? "Language" is definitely something that "everyone uses every day"! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would be just another trivia question, not a riddle.

halfadaily

I've cheated.....I looked it up

aggry: Coloured and variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, found buried in the ground in Africa. A word of unknown origin. Seemingly always used attributively, as in aggry beads.
braggry: A variant form of braggery. Obsolete.
conyngry: An obsolete dialectal variant of conyger, itself an obsolete term meaning �rabbit warren�.
gry: The smallest unit in Locke�s proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a (�philosophical�) foot. Also the grunt of a pig, an insignificant trifle, or a verb meaning to roar. Obsolete.
iggry: Egyptian colloquial Arabic pronunciation of ijri: �Hurry up!�, brought back after the First World War by members of British and Australian forces who had fought in Egypt.
meagry: Having a meagre appearance. Obsolete.
nangry: A variant form of angry. Obsolete.
podagry: Dodder, or the condition of a plant infested with it.
puggry: A variant form of puggree, a light turban or head-covering worn by inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.

numan

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Thanks flamingo, but the link is obsolete! Aargh!

I think ginapks has it wrapped up! Thanks ginapks - you're a diamond - even though the answer is disappointing!

Thanks and Happy New Year to you both..

numan

Question Author

Well, halfadaily.. I'm impressed to say the least! Where on earth did you start? Is there a backwards dictionary somewhere that I wish I knew about? Thanks a million - which is exactly the amount I've left you in my will.. ;?]

Take care

numan

flamingo97

Yes, sorry numan - do not know why it happens but when you cut and paste an address you do get stuff after the html. Try it without anything after html and it should work.

However it does lead to others saying exactly what ginapks has said - very disappointing isn't it!!!!

numan

Question Author

Thanks flamingo. I did, but still didn't get the web page! Ah well, now we know anyway, although halfadaily came back with some pretty impressive words! One in the eye for the riddler, eh?

Have fun

numan

Dustybun

thank you all for the entertainment! The answer from ginapks reminds me of something from my junior school days (many moons ago) which went "I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw, how many s's in that?" Happy days!!

halfadaily

Hi numan...I wish I could claim all the credit, I just did a web search with ***gry and came up with this http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/gry.htm

nigelcat

The answer is "angry"

It's the third word in "One is angry and the other is hungry"

numan

Question Author

Ah halfadaily - the magic wildcard! Now why didn't I think of that?? How obvious and how stupid of ME! lol

I've been reading the web page and it's quite informative, isn't it? The whole episode has left me feely rather silly now, but at least it entertained you all for a short while!

kempie

That old chestnut.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Search/Default.asp?CategoryID=18&SearchText=gry

donslot

Yeah, WELL ROASTED.

uutes

I found this at Dictionary.com, so all the ONE's in there really were telling the answer!

Webster's New Millennium� Dictionary of English - Cite This Source
Main Entry: onegry
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a state of being alone and unhappy
Etymology: one + (an)gry

numan

Question Author

Thanks uutes - I'd actually forgotten all about this, as I posted it exactly a year ago! Well, as they say - you learn something every day.. Thanks again

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