Alex Bellos
Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a collection of over 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the diversity of the world of words and language. It features a variety of ancient, modern, and invented languages, alphabets, scripts, vocabularies, and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviors like counting, telling the time, and naming children. The puzzles are designed to twist the tongue and sharpen the mind, and are suitable for crossword solvers, code-breakers, and Scrabble addicts. The book is praised for its cleverness, ingenuity, and originality, and is destined to be a classic for puzzle lovers.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2021
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
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 Ó BRIAIN Such fun, full of unexpected ideas and charmingly written.
TIM HARFORD 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 behaviors 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.
Alex Bellos is a dazzling polymath whose cleverness and ingenuity are on full display in this utterly brilliant and original collection of linguistic puzzles. This book is destined to be a classic for puzzle lovers.
JOSHUA FOER, co-founder of Atlas Obscura and author Moonwalking with Einstein An irresistible linguistic workout - challenging and deeply satisfying.
GASTON DORREN, author of Lingo and Babel For all the language and puzzle fans in your life!
GRETCHEN McCULLOCH A cornucopia of ingenious and insightful challenges.
DAVID CRYSTAL This compendium of puzzles is a great idea.
MICHAEL ROSEN You'll love what Alex Bellos has done here.
GYLES BRANDRETH Tantalizing.
THE ECONOMIST The perfect way to pass the time.
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Weight: 336g
Dimension: 130 x 199 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783352197
Edition number: Main
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