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| | Peppered Words - December 15, 2004 - The New York Sun |
 | | A dictionary that exemplifies this tendency, and one of my own all-time favorites, is Henry Yule and A. Burrells's "Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary." This eccentric work used to be hard to find and quite expensive but is now available in a ridiculously cheap British paperback (Wordsworth Reference, 1,021 pages, L2.99) and in several variations online. |
 | | Burrell and Yule were both voracious readers and both had solid backgrounds in Greek and Latin, as well as in Hebrew and several Indian languages, and so were able to festoon their entries with learned - and often rather weird - citations from a huge panoply of original sources. |
 | | For all the class-consciousness and snobbery of the British in India, not to mention the rigid caste-distinctions of Hindus, and others, words were no respecters of boundaries but intermingled, forged liaisons, staged torrid trysts, and ended up in marriages, both of love and of convenience. |
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