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  • 08-07-2008 11:14am
    #1
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭


    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
    Cypresstree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Cypresstree


    Startling
    Starting
    Staring
    String
    Sting
    Sing
    Sin
    In
    I

    :D


  • #3
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    thanks for ruining it for everybody else!


  • #4
    Cypresstree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Cypresstree


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


  • #5
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,845 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Cypresstree wrote: »
    There's more than one answer.................... ;)

    Tartlings? :p


  • #6
    Cypresstree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Cypresstree


    See...... :D


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