9 Letters To 1 Letter... All English Words

[Hostile]

I got an interesting e-mail. What 9 letter word in English can you remove one letter at a time and each time have an English word remaining until you get all the way to a one letter English word?

I am including the answer below removing one letter at a time. To see the answer just highlight the text.

startling

starting

staring

string

sting

sing

sin

in

I

 

[Doomsday]

I saw this one on You Tube a while back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx8LyeEzut4

 

[peplaw06]

Someone had too much time on their hands.

 

[Jon88]

Someone had too much time on their hands.

I'll second that.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Someone had too much time on their hands.

I'm no math whiz, but I think that's too many letters? Good guess though.