Can you name the U.S. state by the definition of the two-letter word that is its postal abbreviation?

Definition	State	Word
of, from		DE
moment		MO
pronoun referring to myself		ME
interjection used as a greeting		HI
phonetic spelling of eighteenth letter		AR
mother		MA
part of psyche related to instinctual impulses		ID
indicates inclusion, location, or position		IN

Definition	State	Word
function word indicating an alternative		OR
musical tone in French solmization system		UT
born with the name of		NE
third tone of diatonic musical scale		MI
East Indian tree		AL
father		PA
sixth tone of diatonic musical scale		LA
an exclamation of understanding		OH

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State by Abbreviation Definition Quiz

by puckett86

Created Dec 6, 2011 in Language
Featured Dec 13, 2011
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	DoctorJP:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 18:13 GMT	43 points
	I think Oklahoma should also be accepted for an exclamation of understanding.

	rotinaj:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 18:20 GMT	6 points
	OK is actually not in the scrabble dictionary so it doesn't fit the source data for the quiz.

	koopa08:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 18:28 GMT	28 points
	I've never heard 'ne' used. I've only ever seen 'nee'. Also, 'de' seems to be language-specific (French, Spanish, etc.), so that would have been helpful. Good idea for a quiz.

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	dollymix:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 18:34 GMT	31 points
	"ne" is masculine (whereas "nee" is feminine) so there are fewer occasions to use it, but it is still a real world.

	Davidos:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 19:38 GMT	4 points
	good quiz. Never realized how many of those abbreviations were words, and i'd never even heard of several of those words before.

	JoeFish:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 19:42 GMT	5 points
	@emmachild: Just because you didn't get it doesn't mean it's not obvious ;-)

	Bobman1:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 19:48 GMT	1 point
	This was really clever. Loved it. Montana is shorthand for "empty," California Italian shorthand for house (Venice's ca d'oro is house of gold). Georgia is half of gaga, whatever that can be defined as, and I bet a few are periodic table abbreviations.

	jago706:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 20:03 GMT	29 points
	What do you do when you find Chicago, IL? Call Baltimore, MD.

	eab21:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 20:25 GMT	2 points
	Is Oklahoma not accepted for "exclamation of understanding" because OK isn't in the Scrabble dictionary?

	jesse25700:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 20:47 GMT	1 point
	@emmachild: because we know how to spell it and you don't

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	musicwriter:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 21:50 GMT	3 points
	I like Ma and Pa. They like me too.

	barleduc:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 22:18 GMT	3 points
	"Mi" is also a note in the French solmization; also "ut" is not used as often as "do" is currently. It may be better to define it as "alternate for 'do' in French solmization scale" (or why not use 'diatonic' as you did for the two others?)

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	hegemon359:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 22:46 GMT	26 points
	I can call you Betty. You can call me an east Indian tree.

	mossef:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 22:50 GMT	4 points
	Doctor JP stole my thunder. I'm with Oklahoma (OK) being an exclamation of understanding. Thanks for your consideration...

	MikeHQ:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 00:07 GMT	2 points
	Mi..."Let's see...Missouri? Mississippi? Minnesota?" Damn, Michigan!

	cmcodessa:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 00:17 GMT	9 points
	I couldn't get Ohio, but after seeing that it was "an exclamation of understanding" I said 'oh' out loud...out of habit.

	EmYanks2001:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 01:03 GMT	0 points
	@needsapausebutton -- my dad had the exact same joke!!! nice to know my dads the only one with a terrible sense of humor lol.... His other one, is Juno?? No, but Alaska!! LOL... @ConcreteEskimo -- I thought the same thing!! That should be cleared up... I quickly realized what I was supposed to do though, but still... @puckett -- great quiz and love the url!!

	katesutton:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 01:30 GMT	2 points
	I've heard multiple stories about the origin of OK, and in all instances, OK is an abbreviation or different pronunciation of another phrase (oll korrect, och aye, 0 Killed, etc.) which is probably why it's not accepted as a word.

	churchgeek:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 01:45 GMT	2 points
	Great idea!

	churchgeek:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 01:49 GMT	4 points
	...but I think it would help to say MO is an abbreviated way of saying moment, or slang, or something like that.

	kagomeshuko:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 04:41 GMT	-1 points
	You need to specify that the state needs to be spelled and that the two letter abbreviation leads to it.

	bogbug:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 05:05 GMT	4 points
	MO? That is lame. Better OK.

	spookydog:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 12:24 GMT	4 points
	No love for Kentucky Jelly...I mean KY Jelly? How unfortunate.