Hobson-Jobson

hobson-jobson English 2009 September 8 Alternative forms en hobson-jobson Etymology Derived from adapting the call Hassan! Hussein! (ar حَسَن حُسَيْن, a lament for the grandsons of the Prophet Muhammad) to Hobson and Jobson, a pair of comic figures popular in the nineteenth century. Note that the conventional derivation from "Ya Hassan! Ya Hussein!" is incorrect.2010 T. Nagle 'Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors': Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography 'There is Much, Very Much, in the Name of a Book' or, the Famous Title of Hobson-Jobson and How it Got that Way 8876992073 Monza: Polimetrica 111–1282014 James Lambert A much tortured expression: A new look at Hobson-Jobson. 27 1 54-88 International Journal of Lexicography http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/11/27/ijl.ect037 Coined in the linguistic sense by Yule and Burnell in their dictionary Hobson-Jobson.2014 James Lambert A much tortured expression: A new look at Hobson-Jobson. 27 1 54-88 International Journal of Lexicography http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/11/27/ijl.ect037 Pronunciation en /ˌhɒb.sənˈdʒɒb.sən/ UK en /ˌhɑb.sənˈdʒɑb.sən/ US en en-au-Hobson-Jobson.ogg AU Noun en hoosegow jail from es juzgado en plonk cheap wine from fr blanc in fr vin blanc white wine fr redingote from en riding coat List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms Many loanwords in Japanese ~ en Anglo-Indian slang obsolete Any Indian religious observance, especially the Muharram. en 1851 Jamie Gordon 85 ‘You must be moped to death in this dull place; and next week is Hobson Jobson. Can’t you throw some dust any how, in the eyes of the cat, and meet me and Philip somewhere, and so get away to the Tamacha.’ en 8 Apr 1903 Queensland Figaro Brisbane 23 2 The dusky sons of Mohammed have been having a high old time down at the British India Company’s wharves during the past few days. [. . .] It was the great week of ‘Hobson-Jobson,’ as it is known out East, or the time of the Mohurram. en linguistics uncountable The assimilation of borrowed lexes, either partial or whole, to word forms of the borrowing language. en 1886 w:Henry Yule; Arthur Coke Burnell A.C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 265 Falaun, s. gradually, by a process of Hobson-Jobson, this was turned into Forlorn. en 20 Feb 1909 The Argus Melbourne 6 4 Learned persons, especially those who know all about ‘Volksetymologie,’ whether under that imposing name, or more familiarly as ‘Hobson-Jobson,’ are advised to pass on to the next question. en linguistics countable A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses. en loanword en June 1899 Indian Antiquary 161 2 CARAFT, here is a delicious Hobson-Jobson from that veritable well of curious Anglo-Indianisms, the Madras Manual of Administration[.] en 1977 Robert H. Stacy Defamiliarization in Language and Literature 51 If the French for pun, calembour, derives (as Spitzer maintained) from "conundrum"; this points up well the at first puzzling effect of such devices. Caran d'Ache is in fact an intentional hobson-jobson. en 2003 Jan Venolia The Right Word! 4 A Hobson-Jobson turns a difficult word or phrase into something more tractable (or perhaps less offensive). By that route, a Texas river that French trappers had named Purgatoire became the Picketwire, and the Malay word kampong became the English word compound. Derived terms en law of Hobson-Jobson en Hobson-Jobsonism Translations borrowed word or phrase with altered pronunciation Finnish: fi erikoislaina Spanish: es traducción mocosuena colloquial See also en approximation phonetic ballpark, en eggcorn, en folk etymology, en calque, en mondegreen, en phono-semantic matching Entries referring to "Hobson-Jobson" at Wiktionary References Further reading Hobson-Jobson, Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Full text of Hobson-Jobson, 2nd edition, at Internet Archive en Islamophobia en autological terms eponyms reduplications rhyming compounds