In the language of the Irish, scholars say, there are a dozen words for “peat.” In the language of the Arabs, we’ve been told, there are many words for “sand.” I, for my part, grew up speaking a language in which there are perhaps a hundred terms for snow, and I am not a native of Igloolik.
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