NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 18, 2002: In March 2003, Oxford Reference Online will be available to internet users. Of interest to Hindus is the Oxford Dictionary of First Names where India is listed as a common first name for children in Britain and the United States. The dictionary says, “India as a first name is presumably from the name of the subcontinent, and apparently taken into regular use as a result of its occurrence in ‘Gone with the Wind’ (India Wilkes, a character in this 1939 classic movie on the American Civil War).” Along with the dictionary of first names, 99 other dictionaries, usage, quotations and subject reference books of the Oxford University Press will be available on the internet.
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