Many Words From One Riddle

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There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

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Unusual Paragraph This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it and think about it but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching! The entire paragraph has no ' e ' I'm a word that's hardly there. I'm a word that's hardly there. Take away my start, and I'm an herbal flair. What am I? Sparsley (No S = Parsley)

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