We all know, don't we my little ones, that it's a fallacy that the Inuit have three hundred words for snow? Utter bunkum. Yet how many words do we have for the four-wheeled things that trundle about the place? I'll bet Nanook and Nell never spend their nights in the igloo wondering why it is that in English there are three hundred words for car.
But some things do need a word and there isn't always an English one. Have a look at this and chortle into your snifter as you encounter Johnny Foreigner's weird world of words.
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