[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) › c5.1 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c5.1 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c5.1 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c5.1) THE twofold hope expressed in the closing sentence of Sir Henry Yule's Preface to the original Edition of this book has been amply justified. More recent research and discoveries have, of course, brought to light a good deal of information which was not accessible to him, but the general accuracy of what he wrote has never been seriously impugned—while those who have studied the pages of \*Hobson-Jobson\* have agreed in classing it as unique among similar works of reference, a volume which combines interest and amusement with instruction, in a manner which few other Dictionaries, if any, have done. - [Previous: c4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.18) - [Next: c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c5.2) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c5.1) · Pramāṇa