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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book

Lexical Perplexities and Cracking Conundrums from Across the Globe

by Alex Bellos
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/01/2022
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From thebestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.

Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.

Whether you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.

ISBN:
9781783352197
9781783352197
Category:
Puzzles & quizzes
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-01-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x25mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Alex Bellos

Alex Bellos writes about maths for the Guardian and is the author of several bestselling popular science books.

He has also written Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, which was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year, and he ghost-wrote Pelé’s bestselling autobiography.

He lives in West London.

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