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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alex Bellos
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreLanguage - history and general works
Puzzles and quizzes
ISBN/Barcode 9781783352197
ClassificationsDewey:793.73
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Guardian Faber Publishing
Imprint Guardian Faber Publishing
Publication Date 7 October 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'Alex Bellos is a wizard.' - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist 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.

Author Biography

Alex Bellos is a grandmaster of the puzzling world, brilliant on all things cryptic. His bestselling, award-winning books include Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass and Can You Solve My Problems?, and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is also the coauthor of two mathematical colouring books and the children's series Football School. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than twenty million people, and he writes a popular maths and puzzle blog for the Guardian. @alexbellos