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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 COLUMNS Language Interference From robots to soap operas: 100 years of Czech-English borrowings MED Profile Visual thinking: the key to illustrating dictionaries An interview with cartoonist Martin Shovel New word of the month Just good friends of the earth? New words and the environment MED Web Watch Double-Tongued Dictionary www.doubletongued.org Your questions answered		In this Issue Welcome to the 47th 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. This month’s Language Interference article looks at the long history of borrowings between the Czech and English languages. In the new word of the month series we look at dating in the ‘green’ age. In the MED Profile series, Cartoonist Martin Shovel explains how he comes up with illustrations for books like MED and Macmillan Phrasal Verbs plus. MED Web Watch reviews a website dedicated to new words. Readers have emailed us with more linguistic queries; read the answers 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: we are always pleased to receive your comments and suggestions. You can send us these by filling in this simple form. Why not recommend MED Magazine to your students, colleagues, friends and family? Click here to spread the word! Sharon Creese Editor