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The Language Lovers Puzzle Book Alex Bellos

Name: The Language Lovers Puzzle Book Alex Bellos
SKU: BELL-48076296
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (58 reviews)

SKU: BELL-48076296

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The Language Lovers Puzzle Book Alex Bellos instant download after payment.

Publisher: The Experiment

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 16.81 MB

Author: Alex Bellos

Language: English

Year: 2021

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The Language Lovers Puzzle Book Alex Bellos by Alex Bellos instant download after payment.

100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language
Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious counting:
boru niko = two balls
tsuna nihon = two ropes
uma nito = two horses
kami nimai = two sheets of paper
ashi gohon = five legs
ringo goko = five apples
sara gomai = five plates
kaba goto = five hippos
Now, how do the Japanese say “nine cucumbers”?*
a) kyuri kyuhon
b) kyuri kyuko
c) kyuri kyuhiki
d) kyuri kyuto
Bellos finds the intrigue—and the human element—in a dizzying array of ancient, modern, and...