Participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities press conference announcing the completion of the Dictionary of American Regional English.
The National Endowment for the Humanities held a press conference on March 8, 2012, in its offices in Washington, D.C., to announce the completion of DARE‘s text with the publication of Volume V in March. Joan Houston Hall, DARE’s Chief Editor, and Ben Zimmer, Visual Thesaurus executive producer and language columnist for the Boston Globe, discuss the significance of the Dictionary‘s completion.
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