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	FROM THE EDITOR In this Issue Contributors Letters to the Editor Write to Us Spread the Word Back Issues Index FEATURE Food and Cooking in American and British English COLUMNS Metaphor What we talk about when we talk about success and failure Focus on Language Awareness: Introduction Spoken discourse Discourse markers oh, well and like UK version ¦ US version New word of the month Are you still looking for your Valentine? Top Tips for the CD-ROMs Making sense of spoken language onestopenglish.com		In this Issue Welcome to the February 2004 issue of MED Magazine, the free webzine of the Macmillan English Dictionaries resource site! This month we celebrate Valentine's Day by looking at some new words that describe ways of searching for and finding a romantic partner. The metaphor article this month explores language we use when we talk about success and failure. The final part in the series of articles on American and British English describes some of the most common differences between vocabulary used in the two varieties of English to talk about cooking and food. The Language Awareness article in this issue takes a look at spoken discourse, more specifically three frequently used discourse markers (oh, well and like): when they are used and what role they play in conversation. This month the top tips article gives you advice on how to create activities for exploring spoken language with the help of the dictionary CD-ROMs. You can browse the content of the back issues on the index page, which we update every month. You can also find a collection of all MED Magazine covers on the back issues page. We always value feedback from our readers. If you would like to send us your comments or suggestions, please fill in and email us this form. Click here to read a selection of comments we have received about previous issues of MED Magazine. Kati Sule Editor