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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 Hungarian or Hunglish? Borrowings and false friends between Hungarian and English COLUMNS Metaphor What we talk about when we talk about friendship Focus on Language Study: Introduction Collocation Fixed combinations: idioms and phrasal verbs UK version ¦ US version New word of the month The language of the European Union Top Tips for the CD-ROMs Phrasal verbs practice using the CD-ROMs onestopenglish.com		In this Issue Welcome to the May 2004 issue of MED Magazine, the webzine of the Macmillan English Dictionaries resource site! On 1 May 2004 ten new member states joined the European Union. To mark this occasion in the regular new word column we explore vocabulary related to the EU. The feature article takes a closer look at the language of one of the new member states: Hungarian. In this article you can read about borrowings and false friends between English and Hungarian. The metaphor series explores the language used when we talk about friendship and the similarities and marked differences between talking about a friend and a lover. Collocation and fixed expressions are the topic of the Language Study article. Find out what collocation is, why it is important, and what the main types of fixed phrases are. The top tips follow on from the Language Study article and explain the ways in which you can search for phrasal verbs on the CD-ROMs, and how the electronic dictionaries can help create classroom activities. If you would like to browse the articles published in MED Magazine so far, why not take a look at the index page. You can find the covers of all issues on the back issues page. Let us have your comments and suggestions by filling in and emailing this form. If you would like to find out what readers have said about MED Magazine, you can read a selection of their comments on this page. Kati Sule Editor