commune aux deux savants, celle de faire un dictionnaire des mots anglo-indiens, usités non seulement dans la presqu'île hindoustane, mais encore dans l'Extrême-Orient, amena vers 1872 une association qui se termina brusquement en 1882 d'une façon prématurée, par la mort de Burnell 1. Yule n'en continua pas moins le travail, qui parut en 1886 chez Murray, sous le titre singulier de Hobson-Jobson 2 que le collaborateur survivant explique de la sorte 3 : « The alternative title (Hobson-Jobson) which has been given to this book (not without the expressed assent of my collaborator), doubtless requires explanation. A valued friend of the present writer many years ago published a book, of great acumen and considerable originality, which he called Three Essays, with no Author's name ; and the resulting amount of circulation was such as might have been expected. It was remarked at the time by another friend that if the volume had been entitled A Book, by a Chap, it would have found a much larger body of readers. It seemed to me that A Glossary or A Vocabulary would be equally unattractive, and that it ought to have an alternative title at least a little more characteristic. If the reader will turn to Hobson-Jobson in the
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Il était né à Saint-Briavels, Gloucestershire, en 1840 ; mort le 12 octobre 1882 à West Stratton, Hampshire.
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Hobson-Jobson : Being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases, and of kindred terms ; etymological, historical, geographical, and discursive. By Col. Henry Yule, R. E., C. B., LLD., editor of « The Book of Ser Marco Polo », etc. and the late Arthur Coke Burnell-Ph. D., C.I.E., author of «The Elements of South Indian Palaeography », etc. London : John Murray, Albemarle street. 1886. (All rights reserved), in-8, pp. xLIII-870. Preface, etc.
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Hobson-Jobson, préface, p. ix.
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