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The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.
Larry Trask
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Larry Trask
Age: 59 †
Born: 1944
Born: November 10
Died: 2004
Died: March 27
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Olean
New York
R. L. Trask
Robert Lawrence Trask
Alaska
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