Ever heard of The Great Eskimo Snow Hoax?

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/Misc/eskimo-snow-words.html

... plus some light linguistic entertainment:

http://www.mendosa.com/snow.html


Piotr


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Subject: [Nostratica] Snow and ice


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> Now it can be told!
> The editor of the Danish-Greenland dictionary stated on TV
> yesterday that Greenlandic has 19 words for snow and 33 for ice.
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