I read a wonderful paper on this several years ago.  Can I find it now?
Nope.  But I'll keep looking.  It seems that it may have been a chapter
in a book...

In the meantime, try:

http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/eskimo_words_for_snow_derby.html



-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Froman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:21 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: The old Eskimo snow words story (was Random Thought: Students
and Snowflakes)


Don's link below also has a sidebar on the old eskimo-snow story in
which they actually give the alleged words and their definitions. Given
that they refer to them as Eskimos, which I don't think is the modern
terminology, it makes me wonder. So, is it true that there are actually
22 words for snow in their language? I found no citation in the article
for those words.

Rick


Dr. Rick Froman
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John Brown University
2000 W. University
Siloam Springs, AR  72761
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