It has widely been asserted that there are "many hundreds" of words for snow in the Inuit language, allegedly due to an improper paraphrase of Franz Boas on Benjamin Whorf's part that changed the meaning of the original text. Although there may not be hundreds of distinct Inuit words for snow, snow expert Matthew Sturm[12] agrees that the English snow lexicon is overall "clearly inferior" to the Inuit snow lexicon.[2]