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Crossing continents and borders, bestselling author Alex Bellos has gathered more than one hundred of the world's best conundrums that test your deduction, intuition and street smarts. These lexical perplexities uncover the secrets of languages from Ancient Egyptian to internet slang and will delight fans of wordplay, Sudoku and anyone with a curiosity about the world. Some of the problems are as simple as ABC. Others will have you muttering "it's all Greek to me". Together they celebrate the rich diversity of human language and culture
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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book, Alex Bellos
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- Released
- 2020
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alex Bellos
- Publisher
- Guardian Faber Publishing
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1783352183
- ISBN13
- 9781783352180
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Science & Math, Science, Mathematics, Languages, Gifts for younger schoolchildren, Linguistics, Puzzles, Jigsaw Puzzles
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- Crossing continents and borders, bestselling author Alex Bellos has gathered more than one hundred of the world's best conundrums that test your deduction, intuition and street smarts. These lexical perplexities uncover the secrets of languages from Ancient Egyptian to internet slang and will delight fans of wordplay, Sudoku and anyone with a curiosity about the world. Some of the problems are as simple as ABC. Others will have you muttering "it's all Greek to me". Together they celebrate the rich diversity of human language and culture