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- From: hm@cs.brown.edu (Harry Mamaysky)
- Subject: Re: I am stumped, please help!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.153651.24428@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Somewhere East or Somewhere West
- References: <678@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> <1992Dec31.104837.26510@physchem.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:36:51 GMT
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- In article <678@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca>, tmabthor@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Thomas M. Abthorpe) writes:
- > I was posed with this question recently and I cannot find an answer, my
- > online dictionary does not give the solution...
- >
- > There are three words in the English language that end in 'gry'...
- >
- > hungry
- > angry
- > *gry
- >
- > Whatever might it be?
-
- Well, in the online 7th edition of Webster's dictionary, I only got
- back two words with "gry" at the end: angry and hungry. Perhaps
- evidence that a third does not exist - at least according to Webster.
-
- Harry.
-