LmtiyaCa

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Rethinking the rain

Posted Sun, Jan 10, 9:12 p.m.

Let's nip this nonsense in the bud: The Salish (Lushootseed) speakers of Puget Sound did not have many words for rain. They had ONE word for rain. See the Lushootseed Dictionary published by UW Press. By the way, Eskimo does not have a large number of words for snow--just two: ...

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