12 Jun 05
A sentence in english using less then 10 words that uses all 26 letters of the english alphabet?
A 15 letter word that does'nt repeat a letter?
What was the first product to have a barcode?
How many grooves are on an american quarter?
How many grooves are on an american dime?
Do you consume calories when you lick a U.S. postage stamp?
12 Jun 05
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Another mind-boggler: There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." One is hungry, and one is angry. The other ONE is something every ONE uses every day.... the ONE is supposed to be some sort of freakin' hint, but I can't figure it out. Someone relieve my suffering.
12 Jun 05
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Originally posted by seraphimvultureYou sir, are a liar.
Another mind-boggler: There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." One is hungry, and one is angry. The other ONE is something every ONE uses every day.... the ONE is supposed to be some sort of freakin' hint, but I can't figure it out. Someone relieve my suffering.
Other words ending in -gry :
* aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the ground in parts of Africa.
* begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary.
* conyngry: a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning 'rabbit warren', which survives in old English field names such as 'Conery' and 'Coneygar'.
* gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with 'cry'😉.
* higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug hiera picra.
* iggry: an old army slang word meaning 'hurry up', borrowed from Arabic.
* meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning 'meagre-looking'.
* menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie.
* nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry.
* podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical term for gout.
* puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree), referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth worn around a sun-helmet.
* skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word scuggery meaning 'secrecy' (the faint echo of 'skulduggery' is quite accidental!).
I'm afraid I don't use these every day, and never on tuesday.
12 Jun 05
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Originally posted by Nyxiea) You are probably thinking of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" however "Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox" is shorter.
A sentence in english using less then 10 words that uses all 26 letters of the english alphabet?
A 15 letter word that does'nt repeat a letter?
What was the first product to have a barcode?
How many grooves are on an american quart ...[text shortened]... me?
Do you consume calories when you lick a U.S. postage stamp?
b) "uncopyrightable" and "dermatoglyphics" although "smiley" is the longest such word (there's a mile between the first and last letter).
c) A packet of Wrigley's Gum.
d) 119
e) 118
f) 0.1 calories per stamp licked.
12 Jun 05
Originally posted by XanthosNZI accept all of those answers. Took you that long to research them?
a) You are probably thinking of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" however "Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox" is shorter.
b) "uncopyrightable" and "dermatoglyphics" although "smiley" is the longest such word (there's a mile between the first and last letter).
c) A packet of Wrigley's Gum.
d) 119
e) 118
f) 0.1 calories per stamp licked.
Now would you like a harder one?
12 Jun 05
Originally posted by NyxieI tire of this.
Name the first magazine for women.
Which band was the first to have their name on the drumset?
How many clues in the first published newspaper crossword?
First automobile company to offer air conditioning?
First automobile to make an automatic transmission?
12 Jun 05
Originally posted by schakuhrreally.... I am so glad you put most and not all threads as some are actually quite interesting to read.... If you want a debate with a more concentrated theme then you need to be in the spiritualist forum or the debates forum as you seem to have lost your way and stumbled across some of us in here that need a break from the seriousness of everyday life...
Most threads in the general forum don't have a point.