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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Words ending in gry
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 05:58:24 GMT
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In article <4ik4o7$2ae@netsrv2.spss.com>,
Mark Rosenfelder <markrose@spss.com> wrote:
>In article <DoEAqC.7I0@midway.uchicago.edu>,
>Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>Bill Fisher <billf@jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov> wrote:

>>>  Grepping thru my on-line word list yields "kingry" also, but I can't
>>>find it in the commercial dictionaries.  I suspect it's a name, and
>>>perhaps a mis-spelled one at that.  Isn't there a Kingry expressway
>>>in Chicagoland?  
>>
>>Chicagoland the wacky family-fun theme park, maybe, but not Chicagoland
>>the sprawling metro area in northern Illinois.
>
>You need to get out of Hyde Park more.

Certainly, I am missing hoards (or even hordes) of untold joys tucked
away in the Chicago suburbs.  For instance, only last year did I first
gaze upon the Leaning Tower of Niles.

>There is a Kingery Highway
>in the Chicago area-- better known as Route 83.  Note the e, which 
>will be a severe disappointment to the seekers of words in -gry.

Exactly.  Kingery, not Kingry, and, therefore, irrelevant to the 
original poster's question.  If we want to throw in near misses, there
is also the Dan[g]Ry[an] (including parts of Rtes. 57 and 90/94).

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