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The Amazing Shrinking Word (Posted on 2003-08-19)

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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| Comment 11 of 12 |

Startling, starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.

Posted by Math Man on 2011-06-25 23:05:07

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