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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (33065)	11/1/2000 8:15:11 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

What the snow thing? There are an easy 50 words to describe that. And needed, BTW, if you have ever walked over a mountain ridge a few times. That is not an UL. OK, SquirrelBoy, what do you have in your hand? You win the corkscrew prize. -vbg-

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (33065)	11/1/2000 9:58:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

This writer says there are 49 Eskimo words for snow, actually, if by "Eskimo" you mean Greenlandic Inuit. urbanlegends.com This article says 18, but it's not by a linguist- johnhartnett.net This writer counted 15 in another "Eskimo" language, Yu'pik, princeton.edu This writer counted 32 in Inupiat: cuillin.demon.co.uk An oosik is the penile bone of a walrus, only. People may misuse the word to mean other penile bones either because it sounds nifty or they are embarrassed to say penile bone.