What two things do the following four phrases have in common? How are phrases 1 and 2 different than phrases 3 and 4?

1. CUT CORNERS

2. LOOK AROUND

3. INDOOR CATS

4. FUNNY PAGES

 

Answers:

 

The last two letters of the first words and the first two letters of the second words in each  phrase end in two-letter postal abbreviations of US states.  In all four cases, the states border each other:

 

1. cUT COlorado - Utah - Colorado  

2. loOK ARound - Oklahoma - Arkansas

3. indoOR CAts - Oregon - California

4. funNY PAges - New York - Pennsylvania

 

In phrases 1 and 2, the states border west - east.

In phrases 3 and 4, the states border north - south. 

 

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Noelle Griskey