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Marcus was apparently delighted to find, using this principle, that OOMRAWUTTEE was modern AMRAOTI (both names will code to ‘-MRT’). He published a pamphlet which is long since out of print, with coded tables for the 3,900 Post Offices that existed in India in 1877, when they were renamed in standardised form and continued until independence.
The principle is quite easy to remember and helps enormously when looking up placenames place names in atlases and gazetteers."<ref>Smith, Max [https://listsweb.rootswebarchive.comorg/hyperkittyweb/list20201106122156/india@https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread/=520643/ Place Name] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 1 December 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2018, archived.</ref>
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