¹ This routine has continued over the few months since this report was submitted, with accepted papers entering the queue for the September and December issues (80.3 and 80.4, respectively).

² It is a truism with regard to manuscript length, as also for coverage of topics in the journal, that we cannot publish what we do not receive (see Michael Cahill's letter to Language, ‘An appeal regarding endangered languages’, Language 80.1.1-2 (2004), and my reply to it).

³ My son, Adam Clark-Joseph, tells me that a two-proportion Z-test on these figures reveals a Z-score of 4.485 and a corresponding probability of 7.29 × 10^-4% that the proportion of review pages in 2002 is equal to that in 2003. My understanding of these statistics is that these two numbers therefore are significantly different from one another, so that the ratio from last year to this year has changed in a statistically significant manner. Whether this is a good or bad trend is a matter for discussion and interpretation (on which see below).

⁴ This twenty-first-century index is now available on the Language website (www.lsadc.org/language).

⁵ Language readers who have used the index can help in this effort by sending any errors and omissions they notice to me at language@ling.ohio-state.edu.

⁶ Indeed, such discussion has now taken place and decisions remain at the discretion of the editor.

⁷ Technically speaking, the rotation of associate editors occurs only when the Executive Committee approves the new slate submitted by the editor. I am pleased to be able to announce that Jaye Padgett, Janet Pierrehumbert, and Natsuko Tsujimura have now joined the roster of associate editors beginning this year.