query

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Wed Jan 10 19:29:13 UTC 2001


>A TA of mine just asked me what the three English words ending in -gry are,
>and I could only recall "angry" and "hungry."  Can someone remind me what
>the third one is?

There isn't really a good answer AFAIK.

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/full_faq_with_int_links.shtml#fxwordse

has a good discussion of this subject.

-- Doug Wilson



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