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word orphrase borrowed by onelanguage from another andmodified inpronunciation to fit theset ofsounds the borrowing language typically uses.
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SHAMPOO 1. Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, eds.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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SHAMPOO 1. Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, eds.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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There's a lot of adventuring, to-ing and fro-ing, and rather more eating of raw corpses than I had anticipated; plus a climactic big battle against the subterranean, DeepSpaceNineishly-named Jemadar presumablym like the Trek scripters, Burroughs also browsed his Hobson-Jobson before the hero Julian and his moon maid love-interest finally escape back to Earth.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Moon Maid (1926) Adam Roberts 2010
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There's a lot of adventuring, to-ing and fro-ing, and rather more eating of raw corpses than I had anticipated; plus a climactic big battle against the subterranean, DeepSpaceNineishly-named Jemadar presumablym like the Trek scripters, Burroughs also browsed his Hobson-Jobson before the hero Julian and his moon maid love-interest finally escape back to Earth.
Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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What I found in Yule, Hobson-Jobson, p 861 excuse loss of diacriticals: "Sackcloth", often used in the masochistic sense of "hair shirt", apparently traces back to the Persian "Sakkalat, saklatun", which meant a kind of woollen broadcloth.
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The quality of the print and binding of my Munshiram Manoharlal reprint of Hobson-Jobson 1st ed. 1902; my printed one 2000; ISBN 81-215-0109-1 leaves nothing to be desired.
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The book Hobson-Jobson, a thousand page glossary of XIXc Anglo-Indian, can be found at bookfinder.com for as little as $4.
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Another European form, older than divan, and app. directly from Arabic, is It. dovana, doana, now dogana, F. douane in 15th c. douwaine, custom-house: see DOUANE.For a more discursive collection of definitions, with 19th-century stabs at etymology, see the Hobson-Jobson entry.
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Just re-notifying people that the 1000-page Hobson-Jobson can be found at bookfinder.com for about $10 including shipping.
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I am also trying to enocurage the use of the Saanich language among some friends involved with restoration of a park/village site Coastal Salish language near Victoria, British Columbia with a Hobson-Jobson of a few words.
alexz commented on the word Hobson-Jobson
1886 Anglo English dictionary - referred to from BBC article on India's influence on English.
Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India
https://books.google.ca/books?id=baFHAQAAMAAJ
BBC Article http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150619-how-india-changed-english
June 22, 2015