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Gone West · 2008-07-08 11:14:23

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? :)

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08-07-2008 12:14pm

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There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

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#2 08-07-2008 12:18pm
Cypresstree

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Startling
Starting
Staring
String
Sting
Sing
Sin
In
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#3 08-07-2008 12:26pm
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thanks for ruining it for everybody else!

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#4 08-07-2008 12:28pm
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There's more than one answer....................

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#5 08-07-2008 12:31pm
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Cypresstree wrote: »

There's more than one answer....................

Tartlings?

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#6 08-07-2008 12:41pm
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See......

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