Hobson-Jobson
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After the specialized glossary Hobson-Jobson which took its name from a rendering by British soldiers in India of the lament يا حسن يا حسين (yā ħassan! yā ħussayn!, “O Hassan! O Hussein!”) uttered by Shia muslims crowds during the processions of their main religious event, the mourning of Muharran. Actually, the expression has taken the meaning of : "feast, festival".
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Hobson-Jobson (plural Hobson-Jobsons)
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English hoosegow (“jail”) from Spanish juzgado |
- 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.
- 1977, Robert H. Stacy, Defamiliarization in Language and Literature, page 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.
- 2003, Jan Venolia, The Right Word!, page 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.
- 1977, Robert H. Stacy, Defamiliarization in Language and Literature, page 51
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borrowed word with altered pronunciation
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- French : "pataquès" (cf Wiktionnaire , & "Larousse du XX° siècle", 5/6, p.412) - "pompion" (cf Wiktionnaire)
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- Yule, Henry, Sir. Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. New ed. edited by William Crooke, B.A. London: J. Murray, 1903. A part of the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
- Full text of Hobson-Jobson, 2nd edition, at Google Books
