Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

Third Word That Ends with GRY – Jingry says Google Book Search

There is a popular puzzle that asks for three English words that ends with GRY , while first two are “Angry” and “Hungry”. If there is no catch in the puzzle the answer is “There is no third word”. Wikipedia points out that there are no such words currently in use but if you go for archaic, obsolete, or uncommon words you will find many. It gives a comprehensive list of such words. One of the words that caught my attention was ‘Jingry’ and source of information was Google Books Search.

If you search for Jingry in Google Book Search more than 40 results are returned. So do you believe that “Jingry” is in fact the third word? Don’t! Just click one of the search results say this one you will get to read the original text as it appears in the Book. What is it? Looks like “Angry” right?

“Angry” gets indexed as “Jingry” thanks to the error in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which reads out text from images fairly accurate but not 100% accurate. So still there is no third word that ends with GRY

Anyways, reading this page on Wikipedia was fun since it lists out a number of tricky versions of the puzzle that do have answers. Check those and trick you friends.