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Irma Taavitsainen is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics, genre and register variation and the evolution of scientific thought styles in medical writing. Jeremy Smith is Professor Emeritus of English philology at Glasgow University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His interests include English historical linguistics, the history of Scots, and book history. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (2020). Carla Suhr is University Lecturer in English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on early modern English medical writing and early news discourse. She is a co-compiler of the early and late modern components of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (2010, 2019). Turo Hiltunen is University Lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has authored several studies on corpus pragmatics, corpus compilation, phraseology, and the language of science and medicine.