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Usenet Posted 23 years ago
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Words ending in -ngry
A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry.
Are there any others than angry and hungry?
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Are there any others than angry and hungry?
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Top answer
No. Categorically there are not.
- No.
- Categorically there are not.
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[nq:1]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
A google on will find 93,000 references, of which 781 are to our very own AUE FAQ. What applies to "gry" applies a fortiori (always wanted to use that phrase) to "ngry".
Don Aitken
A google on will find 93,000 references, of which 781 are to our very own AUE FAQ. What applies to "gry" applies a fortiori (always wanted to use that phrase) to "ngry".
Don Aitken
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On 5/8/03 10:26 am (UK time), Steve Hayes let loose these words:
[nq:1]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/gry.htm gives just a few obsolete ones - "nangry" and "conyngry". Somewhere I've come across "a
[nq:1]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/gry.htm gives just a few obsolete ones - "nangry" and "conyngry". Somewhere I've come across "a
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[nq:1]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
This sounds like a very slight mutation of the riddle that caused such a mania a few years ago. Here's the entry in the Mini-FAQ:
words ending in "-gry"
Questions like this belong in rec.puzzles, not here; consult the rec.puzzles archive. However, the short answer is:
This sounds like a very slight mutation of the riddle that caused such a mania a few years ago. Here's the entry in the Mini-FAQ:
words ending in "-gry"
Questions like this belong in rec.puzzles, not here; consult the rec.puzzles archive. However, the short answer is:
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[nq:1]On 5/8/03 10:26 am (UK time), Steve Hayes let loose these words:[/nq]
[nq:2]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
[nq:1]http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/gry.htm gives just a few obsolete ones - "nangry" and "conyngry". Somewhere I'
[nq:2]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
[nq:1]http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/gry.htm gives just a few obsolete ones - "nangry" and "conyngry". Somewhere I'
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[nq:1]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
usually the question asks for words ending in -gry (no n), the third example being 'gryphon'
usually the question asks for words ending in -gry (no n), the third example being 'gryphon'
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[nq:2]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
[nq:1]usually the question asks for words ending in -gry (no n), the third example being 'gryphon'[/nq]
I see that's the other end.
Skitt (in SF Bay Area) http://www.geociti
[nq:1]usually the question asks for words ending in -gry (no n), the third example being 'gryphon'[/nq]
I see that's the other end.
Skitt (in SF Bay Area) http://www.geociti
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[nq:1]http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/gry.htm gives just a few obsolete ones - "nangry" and "conyngry". Somewhere I've come across "anhungry", probably obsolete as well.[/nq]
M-W says Coriolanus: http://www.m-w.c
M-W says Coriolanus: http://www.m-w.c
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[nq:2]A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry?[/nq]
[nq:1]This sounds like a very slight mutation of the riddle that caused such a mania a few years ago. Here's ... change the wording, unwittingly making it insoluble. An article on the history and variants of this riddle is at:
[nq:1]This sounds like a very slight mutation of the riddle that caused such a mania a few years ago. Here's ... change the wording, unwittingly making it insoluble. An article on the history and variants of this riddle is at:
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[nq:2]Angry schmangry. (one googlehit) Hungry schmungry. (one googlehit)[/nq]
[nq:1]Pretty conclusive evidence that Yiddish is dead in the US and Canada. It probably was never alive in UKoGBaNI.[/nq]
Say what? This newsgroup alone has breathed new life into the Yiddish interjection "oy!" and the jocular Yinglishism "know from".
[nq:1]Pretty conclusive evidence that Yiddish is dead in the US and Canada. It probably was never alive in UKoGBaNI.[/nq]
Say what? This newsgroup alone has breathed new life into the Yiddish interjection "oy!" and the jocular Yinglishism "know from".
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