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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical Perplexities and Cracking Conundrums F

Alex Bellos

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From the bestselling 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 only puzzle book I’ve seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.’DARA � BRIAIN’Such fun, full of unexpected ideas and charmingly written.’TIM HARFORDThe 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 gua

Author Alex Bellos Published by Guardian Books ISBN 9781783352180 EAN 9781783352180 Bic Code Cover Paperback