The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical Perplexities and Cracking Conundrums From Across the Globe
by
Alex Bellos
published by
Guardian Faber Publishing
(2021)
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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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches From The Wonderful World of Mathematics
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Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
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Football School: Where Football Explains the World
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Can You Solve My Problems? A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles
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Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World
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Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World
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So You Think You've Got Problems? Surprising and Rewarding Puzzles to Sharpen Your Mind
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Football School Season 4: Where Football Explains the World
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Think Twice: Solve the Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong