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Old 03-25-2009, 11:34 AM   #47
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This isn't true. The story was started by the anthropologist Franz Boaz who noted that the Central Esquimaux have different words for different kinds of snow...
And this ultimately gave rise to the relatively new word "snowclone" (which I find fun to say as well as to spot) out of the world of linguistics.
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