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The many, many, Norwegian words for snow.

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"Snø" doesn't even begin to cover it. Norwegians use different words for snow depending on where they are from, and whether they're discussing the weather, driving conditions or cross-country skiing.

While Norwegian probably can't muster the probably apocryphal hundred Inuit words for snow, there are at the very least dozens of ways of describing the whi…

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