What are some interesting facts about the English language?

Answer by:  Vijay Nandwani, Lemme learn.

The word 'STARTLING' is the only 9 letter word in the english language where you can remove one letter at a time and still create a word.

Startling: Very surprising
Starting: Beginning
Staring: to look fixedly
String: material consisting of threads of cotton, hemp, or other material twisted together to form a thin length.
Sting:a small sharp-pointed organ at the end of the abdomen of bees, wasps, ants, and scorpions
Sing: make musical sound
Sin: an immoral act
In: Enclosed
I: Singular pronoun