Language things

I'm a person who thinks that the English language is kind of messed up. I mean, there are words that you can write using exactly the same syntax, and they mean different things. There are also words that sound similar, but have different meanings, and there are also words that sound exactly the same but not only they have different meanings, but they also don't have even one letter in common.

That's all comparing it to the Spanish language, where you have so many words...you have four and five different words to say something....well that's also messed up...I guess.

Anyway, today I received an email, with a nine letter word in English, which you can start removing words one by one from, and every time you remove a letter, the remaining letters make a valid word in English. The word is:

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

I


That's kind of cool...is it not?

-R