7.555, Sum: Indian English dictionary

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-555. Sun Apr 14 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  61
 
Subject: 7.555, Sum: Indian English dictionary
 
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Date:  Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:05:33 EDT
From:  JPKIRCHNER at aol.com
Subject:  Sum:  Indian English dictionary
 
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Date:  Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:05:33 EDT
From:  JPKIRCHNER at aol.com
Subject:  Sum:  Indian English dictionary
 
Ages ago I posted a query asking if there were a dictionary that might help
me with the terms specific to Indian English that don't appear in an ordinary
English unabridged.
 
There appear to be three:
 
Yule, Henry, Sir (1886), Hobson-Jobson: being a glossary of Anglo-Indian
colloquial words and phrases and of kindred terms.  London: John Murray.
 
This is a quaint, chatty and seemingly quite comprehensive reference source
that not only tells you what the Anglo-Indian terms mean, but sometimes what
they don't mean but that the authors originally _thought_ they meant.
 
Muthiah, S. (1991), Words in Indian English: A Reader's Guide.  Indus.
 
I couldn't get my hands on a copy of this anywhere, whether at a library or a
bookstore.  While it's purportedly still in print, I did not succeed in
getting a copy even on special order.
 
Lewis, Ivor (1991), Sahibs, Nabobs and Boxwallahs: A Dictionary of the Words
of Anglo-India.  Bombay: Oxford.
 
Not nearly as big as Hobson-Jobson, but a good reference source.
 
Profuse thanks to:  Lynne Hewitt, Peter Daniels, Stuart Luppescu, Linda
Coleman, and anyone else whose message may have gotten misplaced in the
caverns of my hard disk.
 
James Kirchner
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