alone more riddle for u

anji28 · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: alone more riddle for u

one of my all time favourites :

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?

any answers ??? its quite simple

anji28 · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: alone more riddle for u

[quote="anji28"]one of my all time favourites :

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?

any answers ??? its quite simple[/quote

let me answer this one as there is none for this ..

The word is "startling." Remove the "l" and it becomes starting. Then remove the "t" and it is staring. The rest of the changes are as follows: string - sting - sing - sin - in - and finally, I.