ARGONAUT BOOKS

'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. Reviews The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.Dara Ó Briai...Read More