Just an update (a somewhat negative one, though) on "The Orkney Norn". I emailed Brinnoven through their website and received no reply. I tried contacting them through their eBay shop but again I've had no response. It's my impression that Brinnoven is a one-man operation and that Bill Murray, the person who runs it, usually seems to be busy with other things so that the activities of Brinnoven very much take second place. We're still left with what the Brinnoven website says, then: that there would be a reprint in August/September of 2007, and that: "After another long and unplanned hiatus, the long-awaited reprint of Hugh Marwick's Orkney Norn is nearing completion and should be on its way to the printers by early August. The new edition of the Orkney Norn will feature an introduction by Dr Robert McColl Millar of Aberdeen University. Dr Millar is well-known for his work as a historical linguist. His most recent work, Northern and Insular Scots, was published by the Edinburgh University Press in January 2007." Well, August has gone and we're into September, but there's no further news of the promised reprint. *Maybe* we'll be pleasantly surprised before too long? Somehow, I don't feel any overwhelming optimism, but you never know... Norman Tulloch