The Language Lover's

Puzzle Book : Lexical

perplexities and cracking
conundrums from across
the globe
 By
Alex Bellos
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.

'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.

Guardian Faber Publishing

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