Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.24
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.24
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"This they (the Portugueze) may justly boast, they have established a kind of *Lingua Franca* in all the Sea Ports in India, of great use to other Europeans, who would find it difficult in many places to be well understood without it." (*An Account of the Trade in India*, 1711, p. 286.)