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2026-07-10 10:10 UTC

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space OK. Thank you. It's because I was speaking to someone from the US, and she said, it's a word completed unheard of there. I lived in England for some time, but that was almost 20 years ago, and I am unsure of how common the word currently is.

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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-10 10:17

@mina@berlin.social You generally would not call a child at primary school a student or a someone at uni a pupil! Someone in a secondary schools Sixth Form would probably be called a student however as that is post secondary education. Essentially the difference between the two is age, with a fuzzy area in the middle. In colloquial speech you can use "student of ..." to refer to someone who is studying any given subject or tutor, even if only privately. For example "a student of philosophy" or "student of Socrates" whereas a child would be "a pupil of Miss Smith" or "a pupil of St Marks School" but not "a pupil of English". So they CAN be used somewhat synonymously, but only narrowly.

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