Can You Solve This Tricky Riddle?

In each month’s issue of Boys’ Life magazine, we print dozens of jokes and riddles. See if you can solve one of our latest head-scratchers:

What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

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Short

Get it? You add “er” to short and you get “shorter.”