Of Pupae and Pupils (minicast) - 10 Aug. 2011

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🗓️ 10 August 2011

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A question from a listener on the “A Way with Words” Facebook page has Martha musing about the entomological and etymological connections between the word pupil and the pupal stage of an insect’s life. -- A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate Site: http://waywordradio.org/ Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.4	Over in our Facebook page the other day Raquel from San Francisco told
0:56.3	us that recently she'd attended a class on urban gardening. And in this class they talked
1:01.8	about bees and other insects and someone mentioned the word
1:04.7	Pupa. Pupa. Now the pupil stage of an insect's life occurs between the larval stage and adulthood.
1:13.0	While the insect is a pupa, it's usually immobile,
1:17.0	and it's also encased in a protective covering.
1:20.0	And inside, all these marvelous chemical processes are going on. The creature's
1:26.0	larval structures are breaking down as it reshapes itself into an adult.
1:31.3	Anyway, Rakell wondered about that word pupa. Does it have anything to do, she asked, with the word pupil?
1:39.0	As in student, after all, they're both young and they're not quite shaped as adults.
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