This book, which focuses on the Lowland Scots variety of English spoken in Glasgow, is awelcome addition to the John Benjamins series “Varieties of English Around theWorld.” Macaulay brings together work based on data collected in threedecades—the '70s, '80s, and '90s. The 12 chapters thus representseveral strands of research, all centered on the basic theme of language standards and variation.Macaulay argues that the “view of the inherent superiority of standardized varieties ismisleading and that allvarieties of language persist because they are functional fortheir speakers” (p. 5).