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  1. paranoid numanoid

    Etymology of some Auks

    I just came across this amazing thread, which ties in with some research I'm doing and raises some questions and observations. auk W. B. Lockwood (in his Oxford Dictionary of Bird Names, 1993) states that Old Norse alka originally means 'neck', and that the bird is named for its neck-stretching...
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