Interviewed by the Voice of America (Special English Division) about the completion of the Dictionary of American Regional English, “Words and Their Stories: A Final D.A.R.E.” (Mar. 24, 2012)
Linguist Ben Zimmer writes about language for the Boston Globe. He was not the only one excited at Ms. Hall’s first public showing of the final DARE volume. It was at a meeting of the American Dialect Society in January.
BEN ZIMMER: “We all gathered together in the conference room and Joan showed off volume five. And there were audible gasps in the room. I mean, it might as well have been accompanied by an angelic chorus. People just wanted to touch it like it was the holy relic or something.”