When it’s good to talk
DOGS BARK BUT hounds give tongue, a euphemism widely used in the gundog world, too. Hunting with silent (mute) hounds would be very dull, for much of the pleasure of a day’s hunting comes from listening to the pack.
There’s a whole vocabulary to describe the noises they make. Hounds speak to a line but if they are scoring, it’s when the scent is extremely hot and every hound in the pack is speaking to it.
A babbler is a noisy hound, defined in
