The Globe Trotter in India Two Hundred Years Ago, And Other Indian Studies
The Globe Trotter in India Two Hundred Years Ago, And Other Indian Studies
Macmillan, Michael, 1853-
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95 memsahib, purdah lady, travellers* bungalow. In several of these hybrids we have additional in- stances of the tendency to corrupt unfamiliar into familiar sounds. Mr. Stanley Lane Poole says that " John Company " was originally Jahan- Kumpani (Company of the World), the name given by the natives of India to the United East India Company. The kalij pheasant of the Himalayas is rather absurdly converted into a college-pheasant, much as Uxford, the river ford (c/. Uxbridge), was changed into O...xford. Jack, in "Jack-fruit" is a corruption of the Malay chakka, or rather of the Portuguese word derived from the Malay. " First chop " was originally first c/iap, or fii'st stiimp, chilp being the word wo are familiar with in chdpakhdna, a printing house. According to Yule, "quite the cheese" is literally quite the thing, " cheese " being a corruption of the common Hindustani word chiZf a thing. He also traces the ofiending word in a phrase generally supposed to savour of bhisphemj^ to an Indian origin, in ddm, the name of a copper coin worth a fortieth part of a rupee.
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