Get Your Nickels Together for a Jitney Supper - 7 June 2010

Anagrams, rebuses, cryptograms -- Martha and Grant swap stories about the games that first made them realize that playing with words and letters can be fun. Also this week, what's a jitney supper and where do you eat graveyard stew? The hosts explain the origin of the term hang fire and why Alaskans sound like they're from the Midwest, and take on a debate about whether an egregious falsehood is a bald-faced lie or a bold-faced lie.<br><br>What games first made you realize that words and letters make great playthings? Martha describes puzzling, as a child, over the...