The Pickwick Club discussion

This week on A Way with Words, they had a short quiz featuring mangled titles of Dickens' novels (called Dirkens for the quiz). See if you can guess them by pausing the playback before Martha and Grant can guess each of them.

http://www.waywordradio.org/word-quiz...

I am absolutely horrible at these.

Hi Mark,

thanks a lot for posting that link. The potential the English language gives you for playing with words always intrigues me and I wish the German language were a little bit more like that.

I did not understand the pun about "Christmas Carol", though. Can anybody explain, please?

Carob is a chocolate substitute for people who can't eat chocolate.

that podcast/radio program is wonderful. they deal with a lot of regional slang and also very old English expressions. And with humo(u)r.

Mark wrote: "Carob is a chocolate substitute for people who can't eat chocolate."

Thanks, Mark! I would never have figured that one out! ;-)

That was fun, but I wasn't quick enough to figure them out. I liked "Treat Expectations". :)