Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9036

c10.9036

[Mr. Skeat writes: "The word *Malaya* is now often applied by English writers to the Peninsula as a whole, and from this the term *Malaysia* as a term of wider application (*i.e.* to the Archipelago) has been coined (see quotation of 1610 above). The former is very frequently miswritten by English writers as 'Malay,' a barbarism which has even found place on the title-page of a book—'Travel and Sport in Burma, Siam and Malay, by John Bradley, London, 1876.'"]