Tag Archives: Sir Henry Yule

Hobson-Jobson

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

Advance warning of an interesting-sounding programme on BBC Radio 4 at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Friday): see the article on the BBC website. We reissued Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson, Being a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases and of Kindred Terms,  in 2010 … Continue reading →

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He Didn’t Tell the Half of It . . .

Posted on February 7, 2011 by

Alongside Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, and Storm Nelson, Sea Adventurer, the Eagle comic of the 1950s had a regular non-fiction story – the Lives of Great Men, in strip-cartoon form. (I know that girls were supposed to read … Continue reading →

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