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What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.
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Startling.

Remove l: starting
Remove t: staring
Remove a: string
Remove r: sting
Remove t: sing
Remove g: sin
Remove s: in
Remove n: I ( i )
 
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.
 
wrappings
wrapping
rapping
raping
aping
ping
pig
pi
i

First take of the s
Then the w
Then a p
Then the r
Then the a
Then the n
Then the g
Then the other p
Then you're left with i.

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