Anyway, the answer to my earlier riddle was "empty". You can remove the letters one by one:
m-pty.
mp-t
m-t
And it still sounds like "empty."
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I told my family the roman numeral riddle, and it stumped them and they loved it. it's a good one.
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And I'm out of riddles, for the moment. It's open to the next asker.