There really are 50 Eskimo words for ‘snow’

Washington Post/New Scientist ^ | 1-14-13 | David Robson

[kingattax]

GNIP

[Cowboy Bob]

What is the Eskimo word for “yellow snow?”

[ArtDodger]

Don’t forget ‘Algoracrock’ for ‘rotten snow caused by the evil white man’.

[AlmaKing]

I can see why.

In New Hampshire, I noticed at least these:

heart attack snow (plowing/shoveling heavy driveway snow)
light and fluffy snow
snow of good enough consistency that you could make snowballs and snowforts
heavy and wet snow
snow formed from moisture in the air freezing in extreme cold
blowing sideways snow
snow that turned to ice because you didn’t plow it in time
snow that kept coming in April and May

[AlmaKing]

snow that came in October before the leaves fell and caused downed powerlines and use of generator for 2 weeks

[HiTech RedNeck]

You mean this debate raged on for decades before they thought of... asking Eskimos??

[Pikachu_Dad]

FIXED IT: As he wrote proudly to his FORMER fiancee, “I am now truly like an Eskimo. . . . I scarcely eat any European foodstuffs any longer but am living entirely on seal meat.”

[nathanbedford]

To anyone interested in Eskimo anthropology, I highly recommend anything written by Peter Freuchen, a Dane who emigrated to Greenland around the turn of the last century, married an Eskimo girl, and explored much of that island by dogsled.

He also wrote a fascinating book about the seven seas concerning ocean currents and so forth.

Altogether, a very interesting man.

[lowbridge]

Big deal. In new york we also have multiple words for snow:

F*$#!& snow!
$!#%&%! snow!
D#/*#$% snow!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I know one Eskimo word - “Demecret - One who steals the reward of hard work from a person and gives it to another in exchange for a vote”

[kingattax]

here’s another one for you :

“algore” - what you find on the ice after a polar bear squats.

[maddog55]

This year I've had a ton of words for snow as well..

Damn Snow

%#(!* Snow

Shxt it's snowing again?

I hate this shxt

Nasty azz snow

[riverrunner]

LOL beat me to it.

[Flick Lives]

LOL!

[P.O.E.]

Remember Nanook Carlson’s famous bit:

“The 50 words for snow you can’t say on television”

[PJ-Comix]

When I lived in Puerto Rico I actually had a kid, Fred Duncan, who was an Eskimo from Alaska. I don’t know about “snow” but I wonder if he had 50 different words for “bacalao frito?”

[thackney]

When I took my arctic engineering course to get my Alaska Professional Engineer license, we discussed 27 different types of ice.

[PJ-Comix]

Oops! I didn’t have an eskimo kid myself. Meant to say I had an Eskimo kid in my school class.

[Vaduz]

Universal word for snow burrrrr.