-gry news

[Fred Shapiro]

Here's interesting news, which I got from a posting on another listserv,
for anyone who has ever dealt with the famous question about words ending
in -gry:

"There is a new -gry word! It's not common enough yet that it qualifies as
the legendary third word, but it did appear in Sunday's (August 18) New
York Times Magazine section. In the article on NFL rookies, "Life is a
Contact Sport", there is this sentence: "Baseball suffered the triple
threat of steroids, strikes, and Seligry."  The word is a play on the name
of Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Baseball. The article begins on page 22
(the above sentence is on page 24); it's also online at
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/18NFL.html"

Fred Shapiro