Feeding off scraps at the height of summer football

They say Eskimos have 14 different words for ‘snow’.

Feeding off scraps at the height of summer football
Thu, 17 May, 2012 - 01:00
Paddy Heaney

Living in a landscape of white, it’s perfectly understandable why they can call on such an extensive vocabulary.

Most tribes can probably claim similar expertise when it comes to describing the environment or culture which dominates their surroundings.

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