title: MySQL select where first three letters are different
body: <p>Is it possible to do a select statement where it only returns results where the first three letters of the words that you are selecting are different?
  If, for example, <code>select russian from info where english = 'defense';</code> produces these results
  <code>обороне,оборонного,оборонное</code></p>
  <p>Then can i say something like
  <code>select russian from info where english = 'defense' and where first three letters are not 'обо';</code></p>
  <p>This, for example, would result only in.
  `обороне'</p>
  <p>An example of what the table looks like is below.</p>
  <pre><code>id,  english,  russian
  1    defense   обороне
  2    defense   оборонного
  3    defense   оборонное
  4    defense   другой
  </code></pre>
  <p>I would want one of the results that begins with обо, and I would want другой as well</p>