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A game.
The pros here have probably already seen this, done this, and I apologize if this is a rerun:
What nine letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one? All nine words that are left each time a letter is removed are common English words.
If you give up... I have a video clip to show the answer.
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can you remove them from anywhere in the word? Or only one or both ends?
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from anywhere, at least the word I've seen.
formerly known as etaoin...
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I'm sure there must be several.
Works for the word Pilasters.
Pilasters
Pilaster
Plaster
Plater
Later
Late
Ate
At
A
(hey, cool! that was my 50th post and I'm now a journeyperson. At this rate I'll be an addict in a couple of weeks!)
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Awww! they grow up so fast. 
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So is that the word you had in mind, or another one?
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in the past, wordsmith proposed verbal decapitation (see Beheading words below the fold), which is much harder in that you must cut the first letter only; but the following were suggested:
prelate
relate
elate
late
ate
te
'e
splashes, plashes, lashes, ashes, shes, hes, Es
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shes, hes and Es are pretty dodgy words! So is elate - it really only occurs as the past/perfect participle, elated, in normal usage - there isn't really a verb 'to elate'.
Last edited by The Pook; 02/26/08 02:54 AM.
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you're totally off base regarding elate! also, shes (similarly, hes) and Es is the chemical element einsteinium, among other things.
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you're totally off base regarding elate! Yeah I guess, but who ever uses the verb elate in real life? also, shes (similarly, hes) and Es is the chemical element einsteinium, among other things. ...which wouldn't be allowable in Scrabble since it's a proper noun, but this isn't Scrabble so I guess it doesn't matter... Still think they're dodgy words. 
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