How many words for snow?

[ewx]

qanik and aput

Comments

[kake]

I've read something like that before, but I can't remember where. I suspect your reference predates it, though, whatever it was.

I was quite surprised to find the bit at the end talking about enlarged breasts, then I realised why it was there :)

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

You may have seen this paper discussed and linked (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003286.html) at Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/), or perhaps noticed Geoffrey K. Pullum's book The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/7197.ctl).

[ewx.livejournal.com]

As it happens I did get the link from Language Log, though not from that particular article.

[kake]

Neither of those - it was definitely longer ago than June. (Oh dear, I may have to buyhave just ordered that book. Thank you.)

[uon.livejournal.com]

But more importantly, did you observe it to fornicate?