JEAN ANDERSON is the Resource Development Officer for the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, UKLIESELOTTE ANDERWALD is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Freiburg University, GermanySJEF BARBIERS is Special Researcher at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam and Professor of Variationist Linguistics at Utrecht University, The NetherlandsDAVE BEAVAN is Computing Manager for the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech at the University of Glasgow, UKLEONIE CORNIPS is Senior Researcher of Syntax and Sociolinguistics and Head of Department at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSUSAN DRAY is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster, UKPENELOPE GARDNER-CHLOROS is a Lecturer in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UKELIZABETH GORDON taught at the University of Canterbury from 1967 until she retired in 2003 as an Associate Professor. She is co-leader of the University of Canterbury research team on Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE), New ZealandJENNIFER HAY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury and is also a member of the ONZE Team, New Zealand CHRISTIAN KAY is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in English Language at the University of Glasgow, UK and Convener of Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd.JEFFREY KALLEN is a Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Phonetics at Trinity College Dublin, Republic of IrelandJOHN KIRK is a senior lecturer in English and Scottish Language at Queen's University Belfast, UKJAN-PIETER KUNST works as a software developer at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsMARGARET MACLAGAN is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Disorders at the University of Canterbury. She is also a member of the ONZE research team, New ZealandBRIAN MACWHINNEY Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, USAMELISSA G. MOYER is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainSHANA POPLACK, University of Ottawa, CanadaMARK SEBBA is Reader in Sociolinguistics and Language Contact in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UKSALI A. TAGLIAMONTE, University of Toronto, CanadaSUSANNE WAGNER is currently doing research on English in Newfoundland