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	FROM THE EDITOR In this Issue Contributors Letters to the Editor Write to Us Spread the Word Back Issues Index Register FEATURE World Cup competition Your chance to enter our football competition and win an iPod Nano! The piracy challenge of our age CD-ROM copy protection Your questions answered COLUMNS Book review NEW! Dictionary of Contemporary Slang British and American culture History and celebrations New word of the month New words on vacation: holidays with a difference MED Web Watch Collect Britain: English accents and dialects www.collectbritain.co.uk		In this Issue Welcome to the 40th edition of MED Magazine, the webzine of the Macmillan Dictionaries resource site. Summer is here and for most of us it means some time off. If you are still in doubt about what you would like to do on your holiday, the new word of the month article may offer some alternatives. In this issue we are starting a series of book reviews. These will tell you about recent dictionaries and books published about words and the English language. The 2006 World Cup came to an end earlier this month. This edition gives you a final chance to enter our special MED Magazine football competition. Visit this page to see how you can win a specially engraved Macmillan English Dictionary iPod Nano. In MED Web Watch you can read about an archive of spoken language which provides a resource for listening to authentic English accents and dialects. The British and American culture series brings you a brief description of the two countries' history and some popular celebrations. In this issue we answer a few more linguistic queries received over the past few weeks. Visit this page to see what types of questions readers have contacted us about. This month we also bring you a special feature article. Link Data Security CEO Hans Pedersen explains why copy protection is important for electronic products such as the award-winning Macmillan English Dictionary CD-ROM. Would you like to browse the content of previous editions of MED Magazine? The Back issues and Index pages will help you find what you are looking for. If you would like to tell us what you think of this webzine, fill in this simple form. On the Letters to the editor page, you can read a selection of emails readers have sent us from around the world. Why not spread the word about MED Magazine? Click here to recommend this online magazine to your students, colleagues, friends and family. Happy browsing and summer holidays in July! Kati Sule Editor