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Had no idea that the term “sniper” (meaning “sharpshooter”) is derived from “snipe” the bird, apparently owing to the difficulties involved in hunting snipe. (A sniper is someone skilled enough to actually shoot a snipe.) The bird name may come from a Proto-Germanic root meaning “beak or snout” — for it has a long beak.

I have reached the snipe shooting chapter in Anna Karinina and will say, in such an incredible book, I’m a bit bored by them.

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