Can you name the countries whose first three letters form a common word? by kellkris

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Three Letter Word Quiz

by kellkris

Created Jul 5, 2011 in Geography
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	deco:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 21:50 GMT	2 points
	PANama?

	bsd987:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 22:45 GMT	2 points
	PANama and PALau. You also need to define what makes a word "common"

	kellkris:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 23:45 GMT	1 point
	A common word is a word that is not capitalized (Proper Word.) Although some common words are proper words as in a person's name (Pam/Ben, etc)they are also common names of things.

	bowsntoys:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 12:53 GMT	1 point
	This is a great game! Lots of fun, and a new idea.

	dedalusrex:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 16:37 GMT	1 point
	Typing "ice" triggers Cote D'ivoire...

	zifyoip:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 20:15 GMT	1 point
	"Lat" seems to be a pretty obscure word (and I'd say "ben" is pretty obscure too, but maybe it's more common in the UK?). If you're including those, why not also BAHrain, BELgium, CHIle, CHIna, COLombia, KENya, LIBya, LUXembourg, PHIlippines, and REPublic of the Congo?

	zifyoip:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 20:21 GMT	2 points
	Avid Scrabble players also know about "qat", a leaf chewed by people in Yemen, so QATar might arguably deserve to be included (although "qat" is too obscure to be listed in the dictionary I'm looking at right now).

	kellkris:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 22:56 GMT	0 points
	I was not going for abbreviated forms of words if at all possible.

	zifyoip:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 23:03 GMT	1 point
	Bah, bel, chi, col, ken, lux, phi, and qat are words in their own right, not abbreviated forms. Lib is indeed an abbreviated form of "liberation". Rep is usually an abbreviated form (of "representative", "repetition", "reputation", or "repertory"), but it is also a kind of ribbed fabric, and in this sense it is not a shortened form of anything.

	gunthertoody:	Mar 3rd, 2012 at 15:59 GMT	1 point
	Why not use scrabble-legal words to eliminate the subjectivity about what is a common word?