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My tax dollars at work: CBC News Indepth -- Canadians Have Fourteen Different Words For Snow.

Here's a quick guide to snow in Canada – and how to prepare for it:

While picking up your morning coffee at the local doughnut shop, you overhear the following conversation:

"I hear it's gonna snow today."

"Yup, we're getting some snow."

Here, the term snow is used without qualification. It means you can expect precipitation of significant duration and extent. Try to remember where you put your snow shovel.

Had the doughnut shop people said "we're expecting snow flurries or snow showers," you would have breathed a bit of a sigh of relief, because you knew that not much of the white stuff would accumulate. At least not enough to shovel.

And if detective mon said "daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane, a licky boom boom down," then you've got Snow.

Posted by dave at February 22, 2005 12:28 PM | TrackBack