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Saturday, November 13, 2004

Rainy Puzzle Day

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?

*Hint, there is more than one word to this solution. I have found two.

2 comments:

Kimberly said...

I've only been able to come up with an 8-letter word that does this: abridged. I'll keep working on it...

Mick said...

I haven't the patience for this right now. I'm having a hard enough time coming up with 9 letter words!