Joan Houston Hall
Linguist and longtime editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), former president of both the American Dialect Society and the Dictionary Society of North America, with deep expertise in American regional speech and lexical documentation.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 39min
Mapping the American Tongue: The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), with Joan Houston Hall
Joan Houston Hall, linguist and longtime editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, guides a tour of American regional speech. She describes how DARE documents folk words, maps local pronunciations, and collected recordings from 1,002 communities. Short, vivid stories illustrate quirky regional terms, fieldwork methods, and how dialect maps reveal surprising linguistic landscapes.
