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I can see what you've done, but it's not what I'm looking for

Re-posting for the new page:

Can you suggest a word to continue this list? (and say why, of course)

ounce
Sopwith
research station
Oberaudorf
Fairview
Axminster
interviews
light-scattering photometry
consignment
?

internment

Because the others have the words one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine running through them, either forwards or backwards.

And because, having looked for a pattern determining whether it's forwards or backwards and not being able to see one, I thought it'd be best to have a word which had 'ten' either way So:

internment

Oo, hang on - it's alternate letters

That still works backwards though - phew!

And that's a correct answer

Over to you, Trin...

I could easily have been there till Christmas.

Look I know it's cold for June but surely not that cold.

Indonesia
Belgium
Panama
South Africa
Italy

Which is the odd one out and why?

It's Belgium, because it's always Belgium!

I'll go for Panama as all the others have had an Empire whereas Panama was purchased by another country.

Sorry - no to both of those. Not warm yet either.

Is it to do with their current heads of state?

No

OK, thanks - I thought I was on to something, but it would have taken a bit of research.

Canals? anything to do with canals?

If the answer is correct, why does it matter whether it's what you were looking for?
That's like the problem with standardized intelligence tests...

I say Panama, because it doesn't have an 'i'.

South Africa because it's two words.

Belgium because it's the only one that doesn't end with a vowel (real or fake)

Nobody's really warm yet. Icy's warmest, perhaps... on account of 'current'.

Belgium is the only one currently famous for chocolate.





Italy, on the other hand, may be the only country that has almost nothing to do with the manufacturing process of chocolate... shot in the dark, this one.