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A GLOSSARY

OF

ANGLO-INDIAN COLLOQUIAL

WORDS AND PHRASES

AND OF

KINDRED TERMS

  ["Wee have forbidden the severall Factoryes from wrighting words in this
  languadge and refrayned itt our selves, though in bookes of coppies we
  feare there are many which by wante of tyme for perusall we cannot
  rectefie or expresse."—Surat Factors to Court, Feb. 26, 1617: I. O.
  Records: O. C. No. 450. (Evidently the Court had complained of a growing
  use of "Hobson-Jobsons.")]

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  "Οὐδὲ γὰρ πάντως τὴν αὐτήν διασώζει διάνοιαν μεθερμηνευόμενα τὰ ὀνόματα
  ἀλλ' ἔστι τινὰ, καὶ καθ' ἕκαστον ἔθνος ἰδιώματα ἀδύνατα εἰς ἄλλο ἔθνος
  διὰ φωνῆς σημαίνεσθαι"—IAMBLICHUS, _De Mysteriis_, vii. cap. v.

  _i.e._ "For it is by no means always the case that translated terms
  preserve the original conception; indeed every nation has some idiomatic
  expressions which it is impossible to render perfectly in the language of
  another."

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  "As well may we fetch words from the _Ethiopians_, or East or West
  _Indians_, and thrust them into our Language, and baptize all by the name
  of _English_, as those which we daily take from the _Latine_ or Languages
  thereon depending; and hence it cometh, (as by often experience is found)
  that some _English-men_ discoursing together, others being present of our
  own Nation... are not able to understand what the others say,
  notwithstanding they call it _English_ that they speak."—R. V(ERSTEGAN),
  _Restitution of Decayed Intelligence_, ed. 1673, p. 223.

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 "Utque novis facilis signatur cera figuris,
  Nec manet ut fuerat, nec formas servat easdem,
  Sed tamen ipsa eadem est; VOCEM sic semper eandem
  Esse, sed in varias doceo migrare figuras."
        _Ovid. Metamorph._ xv. 169-172 (adapt.).

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  "... _Take this as a good fare-well draught of_ English-Indian
  _liquor_."—PURCHAS, _To the Reader_ (_before_ Terry's Relation of East
  India), ii. 1463 (misprinted 1464).

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  "Nec dubitamus multa esse quae et nos praeterierint. Homines enim sumus,
  et occupati officiis; subsicivisque temporibus ista curamus."—C. PLINII
  SECUNDI, _Hist. Nat. Praefatio, ad Vespasianum_.

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 "Haec, si displicui, fuerint solatia nobis:
      Haec fuerint nobis praemia, si placui."
         MARTIALIS, _Epigr._ II. xci.




HOBSON-JOBSON

A GLOSSARY OF COLLOQUIAL
ANGLO-INDIAN WORDS AND
PHRASES, AND OF KINDRED
TERMS, ETYMOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL,
GEOGRAPHICAL AND
DISCURSIVE

BY COL. HENRY YULE, R.E., C.B.
AND A. C. BURNELL, PH.D., C.I.E.

NEW EDITION EDITED BY

WILLIAM CROOKE, B.A.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1903




[_Dedication to Sir George Udny Yule, C.B., K.C.S.I._]

G. U. Y.

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