British dictionary?

One of the 250 new features was supposedly a British dictionary for the Dictionary app, which would mean that the Dictionary app is no longer pointless for those of us on the other side of the pond, but it doesn't seem to be included, do I have to download this new dictionary from somewhere?
From the Mac OS X Lion feature list:
British dictionary and thesaurus
Lion includes the Oxford Dictionary of English and the Oxford Thesaurus of English.

Don't worry, I found them in the dictionary preferences

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