Web site quiz

[tonandsix]

What NINE LETTER word in the english language allows you to take away one letter each time and still have a usable word in the english language left ;; all the way from 9 to 1

[dundurn]

srartling
starling
staring
string
sting
sing
sin
in
i

[sarumite]

splitting
slitting
sitting
siting
sting
ting
tin
in
i

[tonandsix]

Thanks a lot to dundurn and sarumite.
What took you so long????
It must ahve taken you at least a minute to answer the question!
I am tryuy amazed at the amount of knowledge shown by the participants on answer bank.
Thanks again.
tonandsix

[Bushwhacker]

Maybe being thick here dundurn - but what does srartling mean !!

[BigMac]

Think this is worth following through:

Stringier, stingier, stinger, singer, singe, sine / sing, sin, in and I.

You can also complete this with the following words, which are the subject of debate as they are merely plurals: cleansers; splatters; drownings; wrappings; starvings; and trappings. On a similar basis the ten-letter word splittings causes debate, although, as Sarumite shows, splitting is OK.

Debate is also rife over the use of past tense forms, where the suffix -ed is added to the infinitive, e.g. replanted and restarted.

Finally, scrapping and strapping both work if you use pi as the penultimate word - but the argument goes that this is not an English word, but a Greek letter used to signify a mathematical term...

Ho hum - time to lie down, methinks....

[dundurn]

Actually I already knew this one, didn't have to come up with it at all, so I thought I'd better do some real work

sparkling
sparking
sparing
spring
sprig
prig
pig
pi
i

[dundurn]

Bushwhacker - srartling is what you get when you try to type startling too fast! As I said in another post today, my spelling is pretty good, it's my typing that lets me down.