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Puzzlers

Linguistic puzzled unravelled.

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        Green bullet = true
        Red bullet = false
        Multiple status bullet = multiple truth values
        Yellow bullet = undetermined
        White bullet = unclassifiable veracity

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Red bullet Three common words in the English language end with '-gry.'

Green bullet English has at least one nine-letter word that remains a valid word as each of its letters is successively removed.

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