It drives me nuts that so many people have abandoned basic English in their e-mailing and online messaging. Don't get me wrong. I am no master of the English language and I am not one of those grammar snobs who have given up being polite to people in the the zealous quest for the proper use of semi-colons. But I still like to have the odd period thrown into text communications to allow me to know when to stop one thought and begin another.
But sometimes taking letters from words can be fun. What if this was the only question on the exam to pass high school English and earn your diploma. Would you graduate?
Okay you brainiacs, here is a brain teaser for you.
For instance, what 9 letter word in the English language continues to form another word each time you remove a letter from it?
The base word is: Startling
Startling - remove the L
starting - remove the T
staring - remove the A
string - remove the R
sting - remove the T
sing - remove the G
sin - remove the S
in - remove the N
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5 comments:
clever girl...funny, I signed up to follow your blog and it is in my dashboard, but not showing in your blog..
Very clever. Thanks for sharing it with us and a good laugh for the day.
FAR from a brainiac! LOL Butchering of the English Language bugs me too.
That is fantastic! I never saw this before and I certainly never thought of it either...lol!
Never saw that before. My lesson of the day. I am no academic myself, but emails like : R U GNG?
Which I was later informed is: Are you going?
What? That from a 36 year old man.
No, I am staying home & READING with my cats until someone can write 3 letter words out. ~Mary
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