Strip n from list created from txt file

I am self studying Python and give myself random tasks to work towards and I am trying to remove the n from the end of each element in a list that I have created from a text file?

I have seen:
How to remove n from a list element?

However applying this doesn’t seem to be working for me and I am not quite sure why? Is anyone able to advise how to strip n from the end of each element?

word =[]
finalList =[]

#Problem area
dictionary = open ('FILELOCATIONdictionary.txt', 'r')
for line in dictionary.readlines():
    word.append([line])
    for i in line.split():
        finalList[-1].append(i)

#Looping over the list
n = 0
while n < 25:
    print (finalList[n])
    n += 1

final_list = []
with open("accounts.txt","r") as my_file:
    first_list = my_file.readlines() 
    for i in first_list: 
        final_list.append(i.strip())