Legend has it that Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, but it seems the Scots have outdone them, with 421 ways of naming the stuff, from “sneesl” to “skelf.” ...

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Scotland has more than 400 words and expressions for snow, according to a project to compile a Scots thesaurus. ... University of Glasgow. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.