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<human language> The suffix referred to in the following puzzle:
Question: "Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry". What is the third word. Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it?
Answer: "what".
Variants of this puzzle have circulated widely on the Internet for some years, usually in a corrupted form such as "Name three common English words ending in 'gry'", which has no third answer.
(http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/gry.htm). (http://word-detective.com/gry.html).
(2007-04-04)
Nearby terms: Groupwise « grovel « grunge « gry » GS » gs » GSBL
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