In what country are people the most polyglot? Can a word be used to mean the opposite of itself? Has there ever been a state with Esperanto as its official language?

These and hundreds of other questions are answered in Limits of Language, a dazzling collection of the most extreme and unusual facts about the languages of the world. Written for a very wide readership, this book will both entertain the general public and inform them about the vast array of phenomena that make languages so interesting yet so diverse, while defining for students and teachers the limits of linguistic variability.

Limits of Language by Mikael Parkvall. Battlebridge: 2006.
(12 copies generously donated by the author)