Could be hard ?

Question

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?

Answer 1

startling
remove the l, and the word becomes: starting
remove one t, and the word becomes: staring
remove the a, and the word becomes: string
remove the r, and the word becomes: sting
remove the other t, and the word becomes: sing
remove the g, and the word becomes: sin
remove the s, and the word becomes: in
remove the n, and the word becomes: I

Answer 2

The word is ....

Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I

Do I get a prize??

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Answer 3

I don't know the answer to your question but thought you might be interested in this. What does'ghoti' spell?
Answer 'fish' - gh is 'f' as in enough, o is 'i' as in women, and 'ti' is 'sh' as in attention.

Answer 4

Wow, I have no clue. Let me know when you get the answer.

Answer 5

not the faintest idea, bet its really obvious tho

Answer 6

WOT HE SAID /////