[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c4.14 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c4.14 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c4.14 - **Language:** English ### [c4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.14) A valued friend of the present writer many years ago published a book, of great acumen and considerable originality, which he called \*Three Essays\*, with no Author's name; and the resulting amount of circulation was such as might have been expected. It was remarked at the time by another friend that if the volume had been entitled \*A Book, by a Chap\*, it would have found a much larger body of readers. It seemed to me that \*A Glossary\* or \*A Vocabulary\* would be equally unattractive, and that it ought to have an alternative title at least a little more characteristic. If the reader will turn to \*Hobson-Jobson\* in the Glossary itself, he will find that phrase, though now rare and moribund, to be a typical and delightful example of that class of Anglo-Indian \*argot\* which consists of Oriental words highly assimilated, perhaps by vulgar lips, to the English vernacular; whilst it is the more fitted to our book, conveying, as it may, a veiled intimation of dual authorship. At any rate, there it is; and at this period my feeling has come to be that such is the book's name, nor could it well have been anything else. - [Previous: c4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.13) - [Next: c4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.15) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.14) · Pramāṇa