In this Issue

Happy New Year and welcome to the 56th edition of MED Magazine, the free webzine of the Macmillan Dictionaries resource site!

The first issue of this brand new decade is jammed full of interesting articles about the English language in all its glory.

If you're an avid Scrabble^® player, find out how the Macmillan Online Dictionary can help you push up your score, in this month's Feature article.

In the MED Profile, we talk to one of the stalwart members of the dictionary community, Gwyneth Fox.

In time-honoured tradition, we take our annual look back at the words that have come and gone in the past 12 months, in the New Word of the Month Review of 2009.

MED Web Watch reviews a website designed to help speakers of American English understand us Brits better, and we have not one, but two Book Reviews for you this month – Txting: The Gr8 Db8 and Pimp Your Vocab – which one is more your speed?

We’ve had more queries from readers keen to develop their linguistic skills; read about them in the Your Questions Answered column.

If you would like to browse the content of earlier issues of MED Magazine, visit the Back Issues and Index pages.

To read a selection of emails readers have sent us from around the world, visit the Letters to the Editor page.

And don’t forget . . .
One of the exciting new features of Macmillan Online Dictionary is a section called mPulse, which includes a multi-authored blog on all sorts of language-related topics. So if MED Magazine just isn’t enough for you, why not stop by and take a look?

Sharon Creese
Editor