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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book

Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
By Alex Bellos
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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book by Alex Bellos offers more than 100 entertaining puzzles that showcase the fascinating breadth of language. Exploring ancient, modern and even invented tongues, the book reveals unusual alphabets, unique vocabularies, and diverse ways of counting, telling the time, and naming children worldwide.
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Ideal for crossword enthusiasts, code-breakers and word game fans, this collection appeals to anyone eager to challenge their mind and celebrate the quirks of language.

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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.

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.

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'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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783352197

Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 October 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Guardian Faber Publishing

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 343g

Pages: 416

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About the Author

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

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