There are three words in the English language that end in gry?
“Angry” and “hungry” are the only two words in English that end in “gry”. The original wording to this puzzle was “Think of words that end in GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?”, to which the answer was “language” (i.e. the third word in “the English language”). There are, however, over 100 obsolete English words that end in “gry”, including “meagry” and “aggry”.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_a… Words that End in Gry Without a doubt the most common question we receive from visitors to Fun-with-words.com is about the famous “-gry” puzzle, so we’ve decided to put the story of this curious puzzle on the site. Here it is. The puzzle is essentially this: There are three English words ending in “-gry”. Two are “angry” and “hungry”. What is the third one? There is no other common word ending in “-gry”, so how did the puzzle come about? It first appeared in print in 1975. Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was meagry or aggry (as in “aggry bead”). There are over 100 obsolete words that end in “-gry” (see below), and these two were in use until fairly recently. However, since there is no longer a real answer to this, modern versions of the puzzle have turned from being puzzles to being riddles. There are perhaps as many as a dozen versi
