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?

The word is Startling and it decomposes as follows:

Startling
starting
staring
string
sting
sing
sin
in
I

Posted by DuCk on 2003-08-19 07:30:18