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The Eskimo language doesn't have hundreds of words for snow

Geoffrey K. Pullman describes in his book, The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language that Franz Boaz provides exactly four words that the Inuit (Eskimo) people had for 'snow' in their language, in a forward to The Handbook of North American Indians...

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