Brainteaser

Today's brainteaser is probably the hardest to appear in the Journal so far! Have a crack at it and see if you can come up with an answer.

There is a common English word that is 9 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?

If you think you know the answer, please email it to me!