For beginners, let's get one thing clear! Although myth has it that there are 100 ways of saying the word "snow" in Inuktitut, there is in fact only one word for it: aput. But just as the English language has different terms for different conditions of snow (for example, powdery snow, packing snow, slush, sleet), Inuktitut has different terms for different conditions of snow, too.
I'll consult some other sources and see if I can find some sort of Inuit consensus. -- STG
In fact, it showed something about urban myths and lack of linguistic sophistication. First of all, because of the properties of Inuktitut, it is difficult to distinguish what in English might be called a "word" and what might be called a "phrase". Of course, English as well as most languages have this problem as well as evidenced from the ?words? "New York" and "Europäischewirtschaftgemeinschaft".
And, for the record, languages like English that have been inundated by foreign words tend to win silly vocabulary size contests. Here is a list of English snow and ice terms.