Produced by Keith Edkins, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text preceded by a caret ^ is superscript. The printed book contains over 300 minor typographical errors, many (but not all) in the citations: these have NOT been attempted to be corrected. * * * * * A GLOSSARY OF ANGLO-INDIAN COLLOQUIAL WORDS AND PHRASES AND OF KINDRED TERMS ["Wee have forbidden the severall Factoryes from wrighting words in this languadge and refrayned itt our selves, though in bookes of coppies we feare there are many which by wante of tyme for perusall we cannot rectefie or expresse."—Surat Factors to Court, Feb. 26, 1617: I. O. Records: O. C. No. 450. (Evidently the Court had complained of a growing use of "Hobson-Jobsons.")] ---- "Οὐδὲ γὰρ πάντως τὴν αὐτήν διασώζει διάνοιαν μεθερμηνευόμενα τὰ ὀνόματα ἀλλ' ἔστι τινὰ, καὶ καθ' ἕκαστον ἔθνος ἰδιώματα ἀδύνατα εἰς ἄλλο ἔθνος διὰ φωνῆς σημαίνεσθαι"—IAMBLICHUS, _De Mysteriis_, vii. cap. v. _i.e._ "For it is by no means always the case that translated terms preserve the original conception; indeed every nation has some idiomatic expressions which it is impossible to render perfectly in the language of another." ---- "As well may we fetch words from the _Ethiopians_, or East or West _Indians_, and thrust them into our Language, and baptize all by the name of _English_, as those which we daily take from the _Latine_ or Languages thereon depending; and hence it cometh, (as by often experience is found) that some _English-men_ discoursing together, others being present of our own Nation ... are not able to understand what the others say, notwithstanding they call it _English_ that they speak."—R. V(ERSTEGAN), _Restitution of Decayed Intelligence_, ed. 1673, p. 223. ---- "Utque novis facilis signatur cera figuris, Nec manet ut fuerat, nec formas servat easdem, Sed tamen ipsa eadem est; VOCEM sic semper eandem Esse, sed in varias doceo migrare figuras." _Ovid. Metamorph._ xv. 169-172 (adapt.). ---- "... _Take this as a good fare-well draught of_ English-Indian _liquor_."—PURCHAS, _To the Reader_ (_before_ Terry's Relation of East India), ii. 1463 (misprinted 1464). ---- "Nec dubitamus multa esse quae et nos praeterierint. Homines enim sumus, et occupati officiis; subsicivisque temporibus ista curamus."—C. PLINII SECUNDI, _Hist. Nat. Praefatio, ad Vespasianum_. ---- "Haec, si displicui, fuerint solatia nobis: Haec fuerint nobis praemia, si placui." MARTIALIS, _Epigr._ II. xci. HOBSON-JOBSON A GLOSSARY OF COLLOQUIAL ANGLO-INDIAN WORDS AND PHRASES, AND OF KINDRED TERMS, ETYMOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND DISCURSIVE