The Language Lover's Puzzle Book
byAlex Bellos
Genres: Fiction
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.<br/><br/>'Alex Bellos is a wizard.' - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.
Language
en
Published on
01/01/2021
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781783352197
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