FROM THE EDITOR
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Macmillan Online Dictionary

COLUMNS
Feature
Elements of English Vocabulary

New Word of the Month
Twhatever next?
– the lexicon of Twitter

NEW! 
Focus on Collocations
MCD from Start to Finish

MED Web Watch
Internet Grammar of English
www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm

arrowBook Review
Globish: How the English language became the world’s language

In this Issue

Welcome to what will be the last MED Magazine in the present format. Fear not, however, your regular supply of thought-provoking articles about language will still be available at the click of a button; we’re taking our fabulous content and moving it over to the MacmillanDictionary.com and Macmillan Dictionary blog websites. So you’ll still be able to find regular features, detailed series and interesting one-off articles on all manner of language-related topics, but instead of having to wait for a whole issue to come out, there will be a steady stream of them for you to follow. So keep an eye on the blog and the Dictionary, and we’ll see you there!

Issue 59 of MED Magazine offers you plenty of interesting articles about the English language and how to put it to best use.

If you're curious about how words form and develop, why not check out our feature on Elements of English Vocabulary, and find out where they come from, and why we use them as we do.

If last time's Introduction to MCD whetted your appetite, follow-up article MCD from start to finish is one for you.

There's a definite online feel to this issue, with Kerry Maxwell's New Word of the Month article taking a fascinating look at the lexicon that's building up around microblogging site Twitter, and MED Web Watch focusing on Internet grammar. Meanwhile the Book Review considers English as a global language.

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