Colleagues interested in sociolinguistic variation no doubt know of the 'New Ways of Analyzing Variation' conferences in America. This year's conference took place in October, and the Programme & Abstracts are now available at: www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav/ A (relatively) small selection of revised papers are usually published in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. For details see: www.ling.upenn.edu/papers/pwpl.html Aidan ---------------------- Aidan Coveney University of Exeter