Word Riddle

I don’t know who to acknowledge for this little riddle (someone e-mailed the link to me), but it’s pretty amazing.

Here goes:

What common English word is nine letters long and each time you remove one letter from it, it still remains an English word from the nine letters all the way down to a single remaining word?

Startling
…remove the “l” and you have,

Starting
…remove the “t” and you have,

Staring
…remove the “a” and you have,

String
…remove the “r” and you have,

Sting
…remove the “t” and you have,

Sing
…remove the “g” and you have,

Sin
…remove the “s” and you have,

In
…remove the “n” and you have,

I

All of these are English words. Watch video here.