A special moment unfolded today as Prof. Dr. Patricia Ronan (TU Dortmund) [Chair of the ICAME Executive Board], led a brief celebration of the 50th issue of the ICAME Journal. The journal was first launched in March 1978 as ICAME News — a newsletter edited by Stig Johansson at the University of Oslo. Half a century on, the journal remains a leading international outlet for research in English corpus linguistics, and it was wonderful to pause and recognise this milestone together. Here’s to the next fifty!