Brain Teaser: What A Word

STARTLING, a common English word that is nine letters long. Try and remove a letter from it. What word is it now?

Interesting huh? It still remains an English word. Continue to remove a letter one by one - from all nine letters right down to a single letter. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word. From its original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time, list them down and compare yours to the answers coming up in the next post later today.




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