Sangent

submitted by Sang on 06.16.2006 in Life/Spur of the Moment

Here’s a challenge for you: what’s a nine letter word that remains a valid word as each of its letters is successively removed. An example of this for a three letter word is (forgive me for being so simple) ass. If you remove an s, it becomes as. Remove another s, and you get a.

Can you apply the same to a nine letter word?

For the answer, click ‘continue reading’ below.

The answer 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

Related posts:

• Quiz: How Dirty is Your Mind?
• Code Word For Sex
• Love Letter Generator
• Woman Gets Ticket For Bush-Bashing Bumper Sticker
• Letter arrives 56 years late

(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

 Loading ...

   email