Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Big Shoes to Fill
by Sandy Wood - February 5, 2010 - 7:30 AM

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The same two-letter sequence can be added to the end of each of the following letters to form nine different three-letter English words. Identify the letters. Good luck:

B, F, G, L, N, P, S, T, W

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Comments (15)

  1. -ad

    posted by LEU on 2-5-2010 at 7:50 am

  2. -it

    posted by Sharyn on 2-5-2010 at 7:59 am

  3. -it

    posted by iammrben on 2-5-2010 at 8:01 am

  4. -ag also works, though.

    posted by Ana on 2-5-2010 at 8:04 am

  5. All three of those work – ad, ag, it. Nice job, folks!

    posted by Sandy Wood on 2-5-2010 at 8:21 am

  6. -ay (I had to look it up, but fay can mean fairy, or to join – http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fay)

    posted by mathesond on 2-5-2010 at 9:05 am

  7. Although, on second thought, Tay looks to be a proper noun, or an Irish word

    recaptcha – doubter of

    posted by mathesond on 2-5-2010 at 9:07 am

  8. I’m not sure if “git” would be considered a proper English word. According to my sources, it is either (in the US) a regional variant of “get”, or British slang for an undesirable or contemptible person.

    -”BB”-

    posted by Bicycle Bill on 2-5-2010 at 9:57 am

  9. Er, what is a “pag?” My dictionary doesn’t recognize it.

    Depending on how loose you want to get with slang, -ap can work. “Bap” and “wap” are basically both onomatopoeic words for hitting someone or something. “Fap” is slang for masturbation that has gained significant use in recent years.

    posted by Lugh on 2-5-2010 at 10:24 am

  10. -et, if you go by what’s allowed in Scrabble.

    posted by Austinista on 2-5-2010 at 10:28 am

  11. first glance gave me ee…………
    easiest quiz ever on yr website…

    posted by olal on 2-5-2010 at 10:53 am

  12. -one

    It was the first thing that popped in my head, but reading across I was unsure about some. Confirmed by dictionary.com (in CAPS):

    bone
    FONE – plural of foe
    gone
    lone
    none
    PONE – a baked or fried bread
    SONE – a unit for measuring the loudness of sound
    tone
    WONE – To dwell; to abide

    posted by Will on 2-7-2010 at 1:26 pm

  13. -og?

    posted by jessiesk on 2-7-2010 at 7:43 pm

  14. Pag = Pennsylvanian German (Pa G)
    Kind of slang, but that’s \ag\ was the first one I thought of. \ee\ was my second choice!

    posted by Madcal on 2-9-2010 at 9:56 pm

  15. Yeah…I got -ag too.

    posted by Acacia on 3-16-2010 at 2:07 am

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