It's a slow-moving movie but then so is Scrabble. I grew up before television and we used to play board games all the time. Not Scrabble which wasn't a German game then but it is now, with umlauts and all. In fact, it now includes the official rule that if a word contains an umlaut, you must play the appropriate "umlaut" tile K-Ä-S-E, and not the expanded K-A-E-S-E, as I often do when I'm typing and can't remember Alt-142.
You're living as long as you're learning, and before I was twenty minutes into the movie I had learned that MUZJIK is a Russian peasant, ESROM a Trappist cheese, SCOPONE an Italian card-game, and HAGBUT a firearm.
I already knew Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" - in fact, I have a beautiful Everyman's Library edition in my library somewhere - but I'd never heard of the Pickwick Singers. I learn something new every day.
As for ANADYOMENE, wait 'til I play Padma at Scrabble again!
