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Word for Wednesday: Pupil

This month's Word for Wednesday theme is school. The word school comes from the Old English ‘scol’ meaning ‘place of instruction’, from the Latin ‘schola’ meaning ‘intermission of work’ and ‘leisure for learning’. The idea of children attending a school is from around 1300 and the idea of a school building is from the 1590s. So far we’ve looked at the words semester and teacher. Today’s word is pupil.  A pupil is a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution. The word is usually used to refer to schoolchildren.  Pupil was the Late Middle Eng...

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