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Thread #4732 Message #26347
Posted By: Bill in Alabama
23-Apr-98 - 06:52 AM
Thread Name: Objectionable Material
Subject: RE: Objectionable Material
GaryD: This thing is a hoax. There are only two COMMON words in the language ending in -gry, and they are both named in the preroration of the puzzle. This puzzle has circulated for years and, as Chairman of a university English department for the past 25 years, I have watched it grow and wane as it cycled through American folklore. There are, to be sure, a very few other words which end in -gry, but you can bet that they're not common. The last printed source which I read made the flat statement: "[T]here are no more common words which end in -gry."