Riddle

[skinem]

Got this in an e-mail from a friend today...I'm sorry if you've seen it already.

What common English word is 9 letters long, and each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word...from 9 letters all the way down to a single remaining letter?

I'll check back to see if anyone got it or to give the answer. Shoot, for all I know, there's more than one answer!

[gailr]

Hint: the letters are not removed, methodically, from the end.

-gailr

[sluggo]

was this by chance a recent quiz on CarTalk?

[bnjtokyo]

It wasn't presented in quite the same way on Car Talk, but there are five different answers nine letters long on their website. (Three begin with "s") They also have one ten-letter word and one eleven-letter word, although the eleven-letter word is not a common one.

You can find all these in the answer to the puzzler for Dec 25.

Yours in puzzler torment,

[Perry]

It wasn't presented in quite the same way on Car Talk, but there are five different answers nine letters long on their website. (Three begin with "s") They also have one ten-letter word and one eleven-letter word, although the eleven-letter word is not a common one.

You can find all these in the answer to the puzzler for Dec 25.
Yours in puzzler torment,

Thanks for that, I added the hyperlink to your response. Now that I have seen the answers, I just feel soooo dumb!

[skinem]

Answers are obviously right, but nope, it wasn't a Cartalk thing I'd seen...
I'd seen kind of a youtube thing.

I know just how Perry feels!

[gailr]

Car talk? What is this car talk of which you speak?
Some sort of Saab-Porsche Hypothesis?

[Bailey]

gailr, you'd like cartalk, NPR, Saturdays, I liked the parts where they'd talk about repairs and mysterious car problems.

mark was-forced-to-listen-to-it-every-Saturday-at-work Bailey