goldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP (07/04/83)
I have been advised by a friend who is not given to hallucinations that there are six words in the English language that contain the letter group 'ngry'. Two are 'hungry' and 'angry'. Name the other four. I think she's putting me on, since I've put much thought into this pursuit and came up empty, even when I cheated by grepping /usr/dict/words. -- Ben Goldfarb uucp: ...!duke!ucf-cs!goldfarb ARPA: goldfarb.ucf-cs@Rand-Relay
lda@burl.UUCP (07/06/83)
I can't even find *three* words that end in 'gry'. Can you? Larry Auton Western Electric Burlington, NC (919)228-3340
goldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP@duke.UUCP (07/06/83)
A grep for "gry" of /usr/dict/words only turned up angry, gryphon,
and hungry. Gryphon, according to Webster's, is a variant of
griffin.
--
Ben Goldfarb
uucp: {decvax,duke}!ucf-cs!goldfarb
ARPA: goldfarb.ucf-cs@Rand-Relaywebber@cvl.UUCP (07/08/83)
The most obvious word that is neither 'hungry' nor 'angry' is the word 'ungryphon-like'. Other words that are lest often used are: 'pangryphon' (since one seldom wishes to contemplate more than one gryphon), 'angryphon' (this was last used in error by the last gryphon in England who said that England had not been the same since it had become an angryphon country [note that most people excused the gryphon from failing to remember that England was not yet angrypon since he was still there because it is well known that the only way a gryphon can live with himself is by ignoring himself]), 'nongryphon' (a predicate that is practically synonomous with 'true') ---------------------------------- BOB (note: gryphon is a recognized spelling of griffin in Webster's and Chamber's)
trb@floyd.UUCP (07/08/83)
How about net.langry, a condition brought about when you notice improper English usage in a netnews submission. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491