The Origin of the Myth conít
ìTo an Eskimo, [a single word for snow] would be almost unthinkable; he would say that falling snow, slushy snow,and so on, are sensuously and operationally different [and so] he uses different words for them and other kinds of snowî
Whorfís paper has been reprinted many times and is thought to be a ìclassicî
Notice that his contrast between English and Eskimo is misleading.
English also distinguishes between falling snow and slush