pupal

> why did fibre, agora, and pupal get pulled No idea for fibre, but agora and pupal have repeated letters.

And these are inserted in a pupal phase, so as to not be visible in the adult.

Toddlers and babies are not just pupal stages waiting for hormonal signals to transform into adults.

Fibre - confusing British vs American spelling Agora & pupal - probably the repeated letters?

During the final phases of pupal development, most neuronal cell bodies lyse.

And pupal and agora are words most semi-educated people would know.

So agora and pupal would be surprising in that regard.

Not sure why pupal or agora would be removed.

The latter, absolutely, bureaucracy is the pupal nursery for psychopathy, but when you actually have to help people, these traits don't work well.

Fibre, agora and pupal are a little esoteric.

Maybe some uneducated players would think pupal was some dirty word (related to poop???), but agora has no negative association that I can imagine.

Genes that act in larval, pupal, and adult development are all mixed up together in the same chromosomes; there's no plausible way for them to have integrated in the manner suggested.

> The NYT removed words with foreign roots you might not expect ("pupal" / "agora") in an English language game Most of the words in the english language have foreign roots.

> The NYT removed words with foreign roots you might not expect ("pupal" / "agora") in an English language game If the NYT were to remove words with foreign roots, there would be a lot more words removed than just 19.