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Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
January, 2018
Richard Lee Clark

A certain five-letter, one-syllable word has the following property: If you remove the first letter, the remaining four letters spell a word that is a homophone of the original word. If you remove the second letter, the remaining four letters spell a word that is also a homophone of the original word. What is the original word?

HINTS:
#1: The title is a hint ..........
#2: .......................for a dog

Answer:

The word is SCENT - CENT, SENT