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The answer is "energy". The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters. Many words end with "-rgy", but energy is something everyone uses every day. There are at least three words in the English language that end in "g" or "y". One of them is "hungry", and another one is "angry".
QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
For those with happy-tensing accents, the final y in words ending -cy has the FLEECE vowel, and therefore so do inflected forms ending -cies or -cied (fancied, policies, etc.). If the vowel of NEAR (/ɪər/) is considered as "long e", then words ending -cier may also be exceptions.
Echo – E; Ecstasy – E or X (slang names for the drug) Editor – ED; Egg – O (the letter O loosely resembles the shape of an egg) Elected – IN; Electricity – AC (alternating current), DC (direct current) Eleven – II (II looks similar to 11), or XI (Roman numerals) End of war – VE (Victory in Europe, the end of World War II) Energy ...
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Some of these names are "classical terms", i.e., words of Latin or Ancient Greek etymology. Others are English language constructs (although the base words may have non-English etymology). In some disciplines, where shapes of subjects in question are a very important consideration, the shape naming may be quite elaborate, see, e.g., the ...
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This is an alphabetical list of television program articles (or sections within articles about television programs). Spaces and special characters are ignored. This list covers television programs whose first letter (excluding "the") of the title are X, Y, and Z.