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Month: December 2014

The Myth of Eskimos Having Many More Words for Snow

December 25, 2014 / David Cycleback

A popular but discredited story is that the Eskimo language contains many times, even multiple times, more words for snow than English. The story is that Eskimos have words for different kinds and states of snow that we don't have: where we might say "falling snow" they supposedly have a single word. At first blush … Continue reading The Myth of Eskimos Having Many More Words for Snow

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