Hobson-Jobson
Hobson-Jobson is this great compendium of words that, I may say, fall in three categories
- Brutalised by the English because they could not pronounce them
- Took on new meaning given the context and usage of the times
- Neologisms
- Reverse – English words that passed into Indian culture with a completely different flip
You can access Hobson-Jobson online here and here
I will list out interesting words in the following categories
Money, Business and Commerce
Flora and Fauna
Politics, Administration & Law
Arbit & Random
This is an ongoing exercise and I will keep adding one word at a time in any one of these categories
