Inuit words

Today, controversies rage as to whether the Inuit really have richer vocabularies for snow than do English speakers. Many English snow-related words do indeed exist, like sleet, slush, blizzard, and others that are not as commonly spoken. Psychologist Steven Pinker calls the idea that the Inuit have more words for snow than English the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax. ... 

Our future can be summed up in the words of an Inuit from the tribes of Northern Canada 7 want to cause constructive damage to the status quo. 

According to linguistic anthropologists, the claim that Eskimos have a hundred (or more) words for snow is a myth. The most snow words any scholar can come up with for an Inuit or Aleut language is two dozen, no more than the number of snow-related words in English—which include such terms as frost, haU, ice, slush, and sleet. ... 

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