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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Word Origin & History. income c.1300, entrance, arrival, lit. what enters, perhaps a noun use of the late O.E. verb incuman come in, from in (adv.) + cuman to come (see come). Meaning money made through business or labor first recorded 1601. Income tax is from 1799, first introduced in Britain as a war tax, re-introduced 1842; authorized on a national level in U.S. in 1913.