The Origin of the Myth conít
Why should we think that snow feels different to an Eskimo than to someone from the south?
Whereas Boas listed 4 words, Whorf now claims 7 words.
The next culprit is Roger Brown who writes in 1958 in a discussion of Whorf that there are 3 words for snow in Eskimo
We now have sources that claim that there are 3, 4, and 7 words for snow