I was reading an old trivia book and it asked what 2 English words end in y but have no a, e, i, o, or u in them.
by, cry, dry, sty, fly…
shy, shyly, dryly, mythy
try, my, gypsy, sky
syzygy…
According to a quick regex, there are 104 results in the words.txt database that fit this criteria. Some of them aren’t probably considered words in standard English but you can find all the relevant English words in this list:
all 104 words
by
bkcy
Bly
btry
BVY
CCNY
chry
cy
Cymry
Cyndy
Cynthy
Cly
Crcy
CRY
Dy
dlvy
Dry
dryly
fcy
fy
fly
flyby
Fry
frwy
Gy
gyny
Gypsy
gypsyfy
gypsyry
gry
hgwy
Hy
hny
hvy
hwy
YY
Jy
Khlysty
KY
Kymry
kyschty
ly
Lyly
lymphy
Lyndy
MY
myrrhy
Mllly
MVY
NY
nymphly
PY
Pygmy
pkwy
ply
Pry
pty
Qy
QSY
QTY
rhymy
ry
rly
RTTY
Rwy
scry
shy
shyly
sy
sylphy
symphysy
syzygy
Sky
Sly
slyly
sny
spy
spry
spryly
sty
stymy
swy
TDY
thy
thymy
ty
typy
Tyty
try
TTY
VFY
Vyky
vyrnwy
VNY
why
WY
Wyly
Wynny
wysty
wkly
wry
wryly
Xnty
Xty
They only listed gypsy and pygmy.
rhythm
myth
zyzzyx
There was a whole puzzle in the game The 7th Guest where you had to spell out an entire 8 word sentence by rearranging letters on cans where the only vowel used was Y.
The solution was:
SHY GYPSY SLYLY SPRYLY TRYST BY MY CRYPT
None of those end in Y
Thy
(Oops)
Are you sure you got the wording right? I
It sounds like it’s looking for two two-syllable words, but even that doesn’t work with the answer as you have dryly and shyly at least. Maybe two two-syllable nouns?
That only proves I need more coffee before reading the Dope.
Why??
Dope aficionados know that “gry” is in there somewhere.
It was an outdated book, for sure.