The Caribbean islands are called the West Indies to correct the name, Indies, mistakenly given by Christopher Columbus. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies of Asia.
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synÂ·tax (sÄ­nâ²tÄksâ²) n. 1  1. a. 2  1. a. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words and of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. b. the patterns or rules so studied: English syntax.