For this very first episode of Linguistics Now, I am thrilled to announce my first guest - Professor David Britain! David Britain is a sociolinguist and dialectologist in the Department of English at the University of Bern in Switzerland and a linguist I have admired and read for a very long time.  His research interests are in the following areas: Variation and change in contemporary English, especially the Englishes of East Anglia, the South of England, the Southern Hemisphere (esp....