Joan Houston Hall, chief editor, and Luanne von Schneidemesser, senior editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, have been named Fellows of the Dictionary Society of North America.
At the May 2009 meeting of the Society in Bloomington, IN, the Executive Board honored them for being "distinguished for the study, making or collecting of dictionaries."
Since the inception of the Society in 1975, only 19 members had previously been chosen as Fellows.
Hall was president of the Society from 1999 to 2001; von Schneidemesser served as Executive Secretary from 1998 to 2007.