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- pls13.html accessdate "2008-03-06".
- pls13.html author "Perera, D. G. A.".
- pls13.html isCitedBy Sri_Lankan_place_name_etymology.
- pls13.html quote "Sinhala language and its nomenclature was precise and meaningful. That was why even the English and Burgher lawyers are known to have preferred to have their land deeds drawn up in the Sinhala language.Therefore, giving attention to the preparation of an officially recognised list of all place names in the island, is of paramount importance. The Tamils can continue to pronounce the place names in their own way if they choose to do so, but the official spelling remains unchanged. Under British rule, the original Sinhala names of tea, rubber estates were replaced by English ones, for the most part. But the Tamil estate workers who came from India coined their own names for each of these estates. The Ferguson’s Directory listed all these estate names in English and Tamil, while most of the original Sinhala names were allowed to be forgotten.".
- pls13.html title "Travesty of our place names".
- pls13.html url pls13.html.