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Research shows Scots have far more words for snow than Inuit

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It is often said that the Inuit have 50 different words for snow but researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered that the Scots have even more. Researchers cataloguing different Scots words for the white stuff have officially logged 421, including the most obvious “snaw” but also “sneesl” to begin to rain or snow, […]