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Thread: The Incredible Shrinking Word

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    The Incredible Shrinking Word

    What you have to do is....

    ....find a 9-letter English word where it is possible to sequentially remove a single letter to form an 8-letter word, then a 7-letter word, then a 6-letter word .... right down to a single-letter word.

    All the words formed along the way must be English and dictionary listed - (none of which are obscure)

    The letter removed at each stage, can come from anywhere within the word.


    Clue:
    Try starting with a word containing some of the most commonly used letters and then seeing if you can add letters to it and take them away to keep forming new words.
    Sounds obvious, I know, and you might suddenly find the solution is staring you in the face.



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    I know an answer to this... highlight the next line to see it..

    startling, starling, staring, string, sting,, sing, sin, in, i.

    My keyboard's running out of ink....


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