>>>>The Inuit have something like 48 words for snow. Does yours have 49 or more < s >
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>>>According to one of my favourite UK TV progs, QI (Quite Interesting), in which many an urban myth is dbunked, this is false. They have no more than 4 words for it. We Brits have more words for rain :-)
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>>Because you always find time to talk about the weather. Or was that debunked too?
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>No, we talk about the weather. But we have rain, drizzle, mizzle (mist 'n' drizzle), scotch mist, spitting rain, cats and dogs, deluge, downpour, shower, et al.

We don't have as many nouns - there's rain (kiša), pljusak (shower - but not the bathroom appliance, that's tuš, probably borrowed from French), potop (deluge), kišica (small rain, a diminutive), provala oblaka (cloudburst) and that's pretty much that. OTOH, being a verb-oriented language, we don't even have a verb "to rain" (our rain doesn't rain, it falls), but we have pada (falls), pljušti (showers), prska (sprays, i.e. spotty), rominja (falls slowly, in silence), spušta se (it comes down), provalila se (it burst), dobuje (it beats the drum), sipa (it pours), sipi (pours slowly), lije (decants) and probably a few others I can't recall.