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English English Bengali Dictionary includes all the common and current words in English. It also contains words from Indian English and uses spellings from Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, a way of reading and writing in Bengali. The book is very useful with its entries of over 50,000 words and 200 illustrations of certain words. The book also provides the user with the pronunciations of words according to standards of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Also included in the book are scientific and technical vocabulary. The dictionary is especially useful to speakers of Bengali as it contains meanings of words as well as synonyms in English as well as Bengali. It also contains notes on English grammar, vocabulary and usage which are explained in Bengali. About Oxford University Press A department of the Oxford University, the Oxford University Press published its first book in 1586. Today it has its offices in over fifty countries over the world. The publishing house comes out with over 6000 new resources each year. The press has been publishing books for schools as well books for other academic purpose and general reference. It also produces dictionaries as well as other books on english language teaching. Some of the other dictionaries published by oxford include English English Marathi Dictionary, Hindi-English Dictionary and Colour Oxford Dictionary to name a few.