How Many Words For Snow?
Monday, January 10, 2011
How young is too young to learn the importance of minimalism? It might never be too early with a colouring book like this...
The number of words that Eskimos* have for snow is legendary (and the subject of numerous old chestnuts**). But how many shades of white are there? At least ten times more than you expect the first time you paint a wall, most likely!
The more shades of white, the better, if it helps keep penguins safe from those ravening polar bears...
* Which I suspect has become a politically incorrect term of some sort by now. In which case, apologies to any Artic-dwellers who I've inadvertently upset...
** Hmmm... chestnuts. Now those would go well in all that cold and snow. Roasted, perhaps. Or in little fluffy cakelets, like these...
It's so cute, like a little squishy igloo!
