It is a rather beautiful myth that Eskimos have multiple words for snow. It is a great explanatory device that helps us to understand that there may be many more subtle variants of the same object or experience than our language would suggest, or that we may at first surmise. For example, there are many more kinds of Eskimo than we commonly have words for: Aleut, Sirenik, Yup’ik, Qawiaraq, Malimiutun, Inuinnaqtun, Natsilik, Kivalliq, and Aivilik to name a few.