Snarfed from the net (relayed to you courtesy of info@timefold.com). Actually, I'm not surprised at the number of words for snow. Ask any skier or snowboarder -- they probably have at least 15 or 20 words themselves. Howard "That corn snow is hot!" Cohen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Snow Job! From time to time, someone writing about language mentions that Eskimoes have some number of words for snow. However, the list of words is never given. Couple of weeks ago, someone named D.K. Holm in the Boston Phoenix came up with the list, drawn from the Inupiat Eskimo Dictionary by Webster and Zibell, and from Thibert's English-Eskimo Eskimo-English Dictionary. The words may remind you of generated passwords. Eskimo English Eskimo English ---------------------------------+---------------------------- apun snow | pukak sugar snow apingaut first snowfall | pokaktok salt-like snow aput spread-out snow | miulik sleet kanik frost | massak snow mixed with water kanigruak frost on a | auksalak melting snow living surface | aniuk snow for melting ayak snow on clothes | into water kannik snowflake | akillukkak soft snow nutagak powder snow | milik very soft snow aniu packed snow | mitailak soft snow covering an aniuvak snowbank | opening in an ice floe natigvik snowdrift | sillik hard, crusty snow kimaugruk snowdrift that | kiksrukak glazed snow in a thaw blocks something | mauya snow that can be perksertok drifting snow | broken through akelrorak newly drifting snow | katiksunik light snow mavsa snowdrift overhead | katiksugnik light snow deep enough and about to fall | for walking kaiyuglak rippled surface | apuuak snow patch of snow | sisuuk avalanche