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	FROM THE EDITOR In this Issue Contributors Letters to the Editor Write to Us Back Issues Index Register COLUMNS Language Awareness Metaphor New Word of the Month Of bailouts, bears and banksters – new words and the economic downturn MED Web Watch The Phrase Finder www.phrases.org.uk Book Review Good Word Guide		In this Issue Welcome to the 53rd edition of MED Magazine, the free webzine of the Macmillan Dictionaries resource site. This month’s issue is full of interesting articles about words and the English language. See just how important Metaphor is to the English language, in the next in our Language Awareness series. Financial difficulties are never far from our minds at the moment, but they’re also influencing the way we speak. Find out more in the New Word of the Month article. MED Web Watch reviews a website exploring the origins of common phrases, sayings and idioms. Keen to avoid the common pitfalls of the English language? Then the subject of this month’s Book Review is definitely for you: Good Word Guide: The fast way to correct English – spelling, punctuation, grammar and usage. 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. Sharon Creese Editor