Thanks, Charles.
To all: Here is an excerpt from the web site:
"I'm sure that you are sick of hearing about it, but I have the correct answer to the 'gry' trivia. The first problem with these things is that they are inevitably phrased wrong, so that it is impossible to get the question correct. Some answers you have are on the right track, such as 'three', etc., but they still are unsatisfactory. The actual phrasing is as follows:
Angry and hungry are two words that end in '-gry'. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it?
The answer is 'language'. The key sentences are the second and third. If you just read those two, the answer is obvious. The first sentence is a ruse to throw you off. 'Language' is the only answer that fits the hints that follow those two sentence.
So, all the searching in dictionaries is pointless. I hope you'll pass this information along. Before I finally discovered the correct
phrasing of the question and the answer, I looked there and did not find a satisfying answer."
Walt Meier walt@orbit.colorado.edu
I guess that will have to stand unless someone has a good spell checker that can automatically process a very large file and wouldn't mind running it through. I'm sure most unix systems are nearly identical, but another checker which is as good but slightly different would probably be able to reduce the list I've made using the unix system to a much, much smaller list. Word processors that check word by word and wait for you to acknowledge each mistake will not work, though. |
