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We love English and if you are here, it's likely you love it too, or at least you are growing to love it, or leaning towards it. Here is where you can share your interest and love of the language through being involved in the Open Dictionary and the Macmillan Dictionary Blog, and by keeping up with the language through the weekly BuzzWord and Word of the Day.
English language blog
When you love something, you really like to talk about it. A lot. We like to talk about English, about how it is used, how it is changing, where it comes from and where it is going to. We talk about it on our blog, on Facebook and on Twitter. Given that you love English, you probably like to talk about it too: please comment on the blog. Send in your guest posts and join the various social networking conversations we've got going.
Open Dictionary
English is so adaptable. Once it's been embraced by a culture, it begins to mould itself to fit it – so practically every country in the world has its own kind of English, and the Open Dictionary is an ever-growing word bank of English as it is spoken by particular people in particular places.
BuzzWords – new words in the media
Every week, we pick a word that seems to stand out as being new, or newly applied or suddenly and widely used. We create a record of this and share it with you … just for the love of it.
Other love English
We're loving English all over the world and rely on other enthusiasts to keep us up-to-date on how the adaptable English-language animal is surviving and growing in their country and context. If you have an opinion on global English, this is the place to share it.
Collocation boxes: if you love English and are standing at the threshold of fluency, then the collocation boxes will help you cross over. Also, the posts on the blog tagged 'love English' will be of interest to both fluent standard-English and global-English speakers.
