http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/hobsonjobson/
A tremendous find of Anglo-Indian words, deriving from British rule in India and still very much at large and alive in the world.
Thursday 2 August 2012
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THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
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Great work. Amazing how much of this dialect found its way to Australia, particularly to the Australian Army. A lot of rural slang from my Australian grandfather's youth was Anglo-Indian ("dekh" for "take a look", for example).
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of this exchange between an Indian nationalist and his son: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojAn69LHCfs
It is fascinating indeed to see how many words there are that have entered the language. Much like 'Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable', there are hours of informative fun in this book.
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