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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 9:43 pm
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Why eliminate three letter words?

First off, just want to mention that I tried searching for this topic, and got the following message, "The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: three." Seeing as though the remaining search terms, "Letter" & "Words" don't lead me anywhere relevant...I started a new thread.

What is the logic behind not allowing three letter words to be searched? I was trying to do a search on "open jaw awards" and guess what? Couldn't find anything due to "jaw" being eliminated. I know that there are common words like "the" that need to get weeded out but they already are by the logic above.

The Google search workaround works most of the time, but not when trying to search a specific forum. So searches for DL open jaw awards domestic were turning up information from every forum, because posters who are members of DL have DL in their profile, which google searches.

Anyway, I find the three letter knock-out eliminates a lot of useful words.

If there's a thread already, point me there. But don't point me to the seventeen-page master search thread...I can't search it for the word "three."
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