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This is interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:27 am
by Marie5656
The English language has at least one nine-letter word that remains a word as each of its letters is successively removed, right down to a single letter. That word is "startling":
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
This is interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:35 am
by woppy71
Hmmmm... I wonder if there any more interesting words out there.....
This is interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:45 am
by cherandbuster
Marie my friend
How do you find these things?
Very interesting! :-6
This is interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:29 am
by Rapunzel
Also:
cleansers
discusses
drownings
scrapping
splatters
splitting
splittings
startling
starvings
strapping
stringier
trappings
wrappings
a
an
can
cans
clans
cleans
cleanse
cleanses
cleansers
i
is
dis
diss
discs
discus
discuss
discuses
discusses
i
in
tin
ting
sting
string
staring
starting
startling
i
pi
pig
ping
aping
raping
rapping
crapping
scrapping
a
at
ate
late
later
latter
platter
platters
splatters
i
in
tin
ting
sting
siting
sitting
slitting
splitting
splittings
i
in
tin
ting
sting
siting
sitting
slitting
splitting
i
in
sin
sine
singe
singer
stinger
stingier
stringier
i
in
win
wing
owing
owning
downing
drowning
drownings
i
pi
pig
ping
aping
raping
rapping
wrapping
wrappings
i
pi
pig
ping
aping
raping
rapping
trapping
strapping
i
in
tin
ting
sting
string
staring
starving
starvings
i
pi
pig
ping
aping
raping
rapping
trapping
trappings
This is interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:31 am
by cherandbuster
Rapper
You're just trying to show up Marie
:-6
This is interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:33 am
by chonsigirl
Oh, that is good Rapunzel.
Ha-here is mine...............
a
ad
mad
O! Mad!
Nomad....................................:wah:
This is interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:00 pm
by Marie5656
cherandbuster wrote: Marie my friend
How do you find these things?
Very interesting! :-6
Usually when I should be doing other stuff.
This is interesting
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:30 am
by mimiki
very interesting indeed. You guys must have a lot of free time to find stuff like this!?
