Editors’ note

Another busy (editorial) year has come and gone.We are reporting for the period between August 2023 and July 2024, when we received 70 manuscripts for review from authors around the globe and all the Kachruvian circles: from EFL countries in Europe and China to ESL contexts in Asia and Africa and ENL countries in the southern hemisphere.Of these, the usual 13 full papers made it into the current volume.The Englishes discussed in the published papers include regional varieties in the UK and the Philippines, variation across the Kachruvian circles (the model continues to serve as a reference frame), as well as Englishes in North America, South Asia and South Africa.Topic-wise, research in this volume looks at urban and rural accents in the UK as well as ethnic accents in Toronto, aspects of lexical and grammatical variation in Britain and South Africa but also sociolinguistic topics like codeswitching and variationist pragmatics.The first issue adds a novel spice to the familiar mix in that it includes a contribution that discusses World Englishes from the perspective of journal editors and the role they play in norm orientation.The diversity of methodologies adopted in the papers (qualitative, quantitative and mixed) aptly reflects the range of topics that researchers in the field are working on and the corresponding range of analytical tools that are needed to capture the rich tapestry made up from varieties of English around the world.A major part of the work that goes into the production of a journal comes from the generous support of many colleagues around the world who give of their (typically limited) time freely to take on reviews.It is their expertise and constructive criticism that help maintain the high standard of the published contributions.