> The number of language-related factoids out there is truly staggering, and
as
> an educator I find myself doing battle with them all the time. Probably
the
> most persistent is "Eskimos have 40 (or 400, or 4000) words for snow".
This
> is doubly annoying because (a) it is false, and (b) even if it were true,
it
> wouldn't really be such an amazing feat.
As a counterblast to that, www.ukcle.org (I think that is right) lists about
that many English words which refer to various types of mud. It is teh web
page for uk.culture.language.english anyway.
--
Fabian
Find your enemy's weakest point, and destroy it.
But remember who your own worst enemy is.