easy for ya..ye u right final..ok..here.........maybe no one will get this....lol..but av a go..i want the starting word and the other 8 words.....

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?